I am done screaming into the void today so here you go, have a whole loaf of scale worm. That thing is huge. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 784 #antarcticclimateconnections #MarineLife

#WormWednesday Hyalinoecia onuphids (quillworms) scavenging something organic

MOAR colorful NOTOPYGOS from Kwajalein Atoll! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Kwajalein has a lot of these! NOTOPYGOS! #wormwednesday and thanks to Scott Johnson for these great shots! www.inaturalist.org/observations...

New paper out on the impact from a deep sea mining test in the Pacific Ocean. Great collaboration with the Natural History Museum London and the National Oceanography Centre Southampton . www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Crustmas and #wormwednesday!

One day we might learn what the "tubeworms" were that formed this convenient refuge for fish. They are identified only as a Lamellibrachia.

📢 The First Circular for the 15th International Polychaete Conference (IPC15) is out! Join us in Frankfurt, Germany • 27–31 July 2026 #IPC15 #Polychaetes #Annelida polychaete-association.com/ipc15-frankf...

Palola worms! is for EATIN'! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Meet Spinther bohnorum n. sp. Tilic & Rouse 2025 ✨— a tiny but stunning worm! Spinther species are enigmatic worms that always seem to dwell on sponges, but we still don’t know exactly where they belong on the annelid tree of life. A shiny small mystery wrapped in glitter, basically. 😅🪱

Whoa indeed! What life form is that? #WormWednesday

SO MANY PATTERN! from India! Hesione ceylonica! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

LONG ARM= genus Longibrachium! Wotta critter! Wotta set of prongs! #wormwednesday Indonesia www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Nightmare fuel for corals: The Bearded Fireworm 😱🔥🪱🪸 #beardedfireworm #fireworm #nightmarefuel #corallivore #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Usually, when something or someone touches a Christmas tree worm's feathery radioles, it would immediately retract back into its hole. But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles. #Invertebrate 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Porcelain crabs are the icon of "fooled ya, not crab". But Eulenaios cometes goes further by living inside a worm tube! (Actually, several true and false crabs, and a second worm, are all up in these tubes wtf) 🦀🧪🦑 #InverteFest peerj.com/articles/2930/

Sad news that Dr Janet (Bradford) Grieve passed away on Saturday. She was a world expert in Copepods, a pioneering woman in biological oceanography in NZ and first women to lead a marine research voyage in nz with her first voyage in 1967. She was a role model, a mentor and a leader.

Wow. Scale worm? OP reads "Plankton fr the coast of Hitachinaka City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Body length 0.7mm. Perhaps a polychaete larva? It has a distinctive transparent disc-like structure, .. Its eyes are cute too." via @a1AgqW93RTKPUD9 #wormwednesday

Remember, the next Polychaete Conference #IPC15 is coming to Frankfurt in 2026! Make sure you save the dates - and in the meantime check out the website for the polychaete-association.com

What did bone worms eat before whales? Marine reptiles! www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Hey Star Trek nerds, FYI there's Gagh IRL, and they're called palolo. They're polychaete worms, or more specifically the detached, self-propelled reproductive bits of Palola viridis #Invertebrate 🧪 - www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10... - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palola_...

One of my favorites! by Alexander Semenov #worldpolychaeteday

My last echinoblog post on #worldpolychaeteday but it includes a retrospective from 3 years of posts and swimming polychaete love! echinoblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/poly...

A reminder that there are in the neighborhood of 90-100? species of Eunice! so there's MOAR than E. aphroditois (aka the Sand Striker or the Bobbit worm) a LOT more! Here's Eunice macrobranchia from Pacific Mexico.. its PURPLE! #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Sand Mason worm from Ireland! (Lanice conchilega) #worldpolychaeteday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

It's #InternationalPolychaeteDay, and we've got something for you to celebrate. ❤️ Flame on: The vibrant red gossamer worm is the race car of the deep sea: youtu.be/PII8AvmEvnE?...

I never shared this video of the nereid worm I saw last year because we didn't have video here then, but now you can see this fabulous worm in action for #InternationalPolychaeteDay!

33 years of NIWA - national institute of water and Atmospheric research, Aotearoa/New Zealand ended today - renamed and reformed with the formation of the new Earth Science institute. Here is a video of some of the archive footage- lots of familiar faces from the 12.5 years that I worked there.

#WormWednesday Review of extensive genome-wide scrambling in clitellate annelids genomes doi.org/10.1038/s415... Unfortunately #closedaccess

Deadly algal bloom in South Australia’s Coorong an environmental ‘eye opener’, ecologist says #Climate

For #FossilFriday meet a fossil worm. Kenostrychus is a bristle worm that lived 425 million years ago, and was preserved in three dimensions in volcanic ash. What you see below is a 3D reconstruction created by grinding it away, photographing it, and creating a 3D computer model. ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

A classic @mbarinews.bsky.social video about SCALE WORMS! #wormwednesday youtu.be/yrlSmxG5yZY?...

They were amazing! 😍 a field of sabellid #polychaetes for early #wormwednesday

We MUST preserve the Earth's #biodiversity, but we MUST also protect biodiversity knowledge. #BHLib holds 500+ years – 63 million pages – of #OpenAccess biodiversity knowledge. BHL's future is uncertain... blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/04/new-... #ILoveBHL #InternationalBiodiversityDay 🧪

Lovely Eulagisca, Antarctic scale worm video by Ukrainian scientist Andriy Utevskyi #wormwednesday Antarctica youtu.be/VKDpcnMYWp4?...

Alvinella pompejana, a animal called an extremophile by scientists. These are chemosynthetic & have zero issues w/ that boiling hot vent fluid. From @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 602 part 2 #Mappinggalapagosvents #MarineLife (psst, they have a awesome 4k vid of this moment on their IG)

#WormWednesday lament of Busch, 1851 “.. marine creatures are not yet required, like us citizens of continental states, to always carry sufficient identification [..] it is often impossible for [..] a naturalist vigilant upon them to determine the origin or purpose of each individual encountered.”

Last week we explored an area with our new ROV and came across this gorgeous field of sabellid #polychaete worms. We don't know the species and generally not much about these aggregations. But they are very beautiful! #wormwednesday

Siboglinidae? You had me at worm. @noaa.gov NA171 dive 1 #NautilusLive #MarineLife

“A story of Neomicrorbis” is out! Our paper on these fascinating and rare bathyal serpulid worms has just been published. The study is beautifully illustrated with SEM and microCT images—we hope you’ll enjoy it! It’s open access: 🔓🔗 rdcu.be/ekuGc

DEEP scaleworm at 4294 m #wormwednesday #okeanos #saveNOAA Westedge

#Wormwednesday Are you interested in Annelida research and beautiful complicated diverse annelids? Join us on the Annelida-l listserv. Running since 1995 and, courtesy of a new host, the DFN, now based in Germany. www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/a... [pic rov dive @schmidtocean.bsky.social]

#WormWednesday What a classic clear figure! It's all there for you if you wanted to id a Caulleriella jormungandri Grosse, Kongsrud, Alvestad, Eilertsen & Budaeva, new species from Loki’s Castle vents, Arctic Ocean. Jörmungandr is a Norse sea serpent or worm. www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/a...

Awesome scale worms in the center of this solitary hydroid! EX2503 dive 1 #OkeanosExplorer #Papahānaumokuākea #MarineLife

NOM NOM! big ol' fireworm ball! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...

The conference proceedings of the 14th International Polychaete Conference are out - in time for #wormWednesday. Free to read until June 2025 - and check out the gorgeous cover ! www.nisc.co.za/news/209/ann...

The iNaturalist pics are quite variable. Maybe there's more than one species. A European polyperson might have an idea.

A new species for me spotted off the docks in Tacoma, WA: Micronereis nanaimoensis. This female had a BUNCH of males hooked into her back end to stimulate her to lay eggs😱It was SO cool to see! #wormwednesday

The lovely Indonesian Chloeia bemisae-showing off them bristles that say DO NOT TOUCH! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...