The iridescent worm buries its body which can grow up to 10 feet long making it one of the longest polychaetes in the world in the sea floor but leaves its head with five sensory antennae.
Creepy worm ocean floor.
So the team extracted dna from the new worms and discovered they were indeed.
This species is an ambush predator and hunts by burrowing its whole body in soft sediment on the ocean floor and waits until nearby prey is picked up on one.
These vents are cracks in the ocean floor where very hot mineral rich water bubbles out from the earth s crust.