Dr Rachel 'worm girl' Hale(@SeafloorScience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Welcome to the first edition of . All worms are good boys, but are they good boys, really good boys, or really really good boys. Pls rate this worm. Quiz options in next tweet.
(Pic of Serpulid fanworm by Alexander Semenov)

Welcome to the first edition of #wormrates. All worms are good boys, but are they good boys, really good boys, or really really good boys. Pls rate this worm. Quiz options in next tweet.
(Pic of Serpulid fanworm by Alexander Semenov)
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Polychaeta Species(@WPolyDb) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Agree with team who thought this a sabellid fanworm (not a crinoid). Really spindly tho. CFZ central Pacific dive 8

Agree with team #Okeanos who thought this a sabellid fanworm (not a crinoid).  Really spindly tho. CFZ central Pacific dive 8
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Xavier Pochon(@XavPochon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So proud of my former PhD student, now distinguished colleague Dr Ulla von Ammon, for publishing her third paper in Frontiers - Marine Science. Inferring the presence of eRNA (living) Mediterranean fanworm based on eDNA copy numbers frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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Ray L. Allen, PhD (@rayallen.bsky.social)(@Ray_L_Allen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who’s that Pokémon?! I believe this shy creature is the “Mediterranean fanworm” (S. spallanzanii). What you see retreat is its crown of tentacles it uses to feed. The other part of the worm is in that straw-like structure, which it makes with mucus!

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