This terrifying worm snatches fish from the ocean floor sand strikers also known as bobbit worms are primitive looking creatures that lack eyes or even a brain.
Creepy worm ocean floor.
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.
Eunice aphroditois is a bristle worm ranging from less than 10 cm 4 in to 3 m 10 ft long that inhabits burrows it creates on the ocean floor.
So the team extracted dna from the new worms and discovered they were indeed.