Tag

#Polychaeta

3 matchups tagged Polychaeta.

A burrowed bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) with iridescent body emerging from sediment

A large coconut crab (Birgus latro) with thick blue and orange legs on the ground

A blue dragon sea slug (Glaucus atlanticus) with bright blue frilly cerata held in a hand

Close-up front view of an agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis), a small brown marsupial, on cloth

Bobbit Worm vs Coconut Crab vs Blue Dragon Sea Slug vs Agile Antechinus: A 10-Foot Sand Bear Trap, a Tree-Climbing Nutcracker That Weighs 9 Pounds, a Grape-Sized Slug That Mugs a Man o' War for Its Weapons, and a Mouse That Has So Much Sex It Falls Apart

A worm, a crab, a slug, and a marsupial walk into a bar. Three of them leave. One of them is legally dead from exhaustion.

6 weeks ago · 6 min

A barreleye fish specimen collected during a NOAA Gulf of Alaska seamounts expedition, showing its rounded head and upward eyes

A Texas horned lizard on sandy ground, showing its flattened spiny body and crown of cranial horns

A wetapunga giant weta specimen from the Auckland Museum entomology collection, showing its heavy body and long spiny legs

A pink fairy armadillo showing its small pale-pink dorsal shell and large front digging claws

A live Osedax japonicus bone-eating worm on display at Enoshima Aquarium in Japan

Weekend Special - Champion of the Week

Champion of the Week: A Glass-Headed Fish, a Blood-Squirting Lizard, a Sparrow-Sized Bug, a Blushing Sand Swimmer, and the Mouthless Worm That Ate Them All

Five weekday winners walk into the ring. One of them does not have a mouth, and somehow that is the one you should be afraid of.

6 weeks ago · 6 min

A hairy frog, Trichobatrachus robustus, showing the hair-like dermal filaments along its flank

A sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus, showing its long eel-like body and round jawless sucker mouth

Osedax japonicus bone-eating worms on display at Enoshima Aquarium, showing red feathery plumes

Hairy Frog vs Sea Lamprey vs Osedax Zombie Worm: A Frog That Grows Wolverine Claws From Its Own Snapped Bones, a Jawless Mouth-Ring That Drinks You, and a Worm With No Mouth That Eats Skeletons

Three creatures that all read the body-horror handbook and highlighted different chapters. A frog, a jawless not-quite-fish, and a boneless worm walk into a bar. Nobody leaves with all their fluids.

6 weeks ago · 5 min

Browse the full archive →