Nov 18, 2025
Worm Week - Day 2: Deus Duesday!
I gave him a bagel. Revolutionary
No bagel, if you want him for a pfp (CREDIT ME!!!)
Or have the bagel in the pfp. I won't judge.
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Worm Week - Day 2: Deus Duesday!
I gave him a bagel. Revolutionary
No bagel, if you want him for a pfp (CREDIT ME!!!)
Or have the bagel in the pfp. I won't judge.
WORMS
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Veni. Vidi. Vermi. A trip to the deep sea gives us the wigglies, as weird and wonderful worms paddle with plentiful parapods brimming with bristle bunches on a serpentine swim through the abyss.
🎥by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Worm Week - Monday: Mechworm Monday
It may look like shit, but I used my own drawing program coded out of scratch! I like it :D
What's in a name? The bizzare deep sea worm Chaetopterus pugaporcinus defied scientists' classifications when it was discovered—but not their imaginations. "Pugaporcinus" means "pig butt" and well—we hope this is your new favorite worm.
🎥: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)
Tectonic shifts can get anyone heated. When the Earth's inner turmoil boils over, a good vent helps blow off steam—and deep-sea vent worms will likely be there to listen! These towering tubular tenants ingest sulfurous snacks sent skyward by seafloor smokers, which symbiotic bacteria synthesize into tasty entrées directly in the worm's entrails!
Thanks to our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute for their video of Riftia tubeworms filmed in the Gulf of California!
Worms are EVERYWHERE in the ocean—and that's a great thing for all of us. Prey and predator, landlord and tenant, partner and parasite, worms are key to a healthy sea. Get ready for a wiggling week of wormy worlds! First up: a purple sandcastle worm and clear sabellid worm participate in a passing plankton popup from a giant kelp holdfast.
Worms are beautiful! Yeah, we said it... OK, maybe not all worms—but the banded appendages and trumpet tentacle of fanworms play up the profound pretty of these painted petites. Photo by local biologist Kate Vylet