bristle worm

noun

a popular name for a polychaete

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After comparing the markings with modern examples, the scientists concluded that they were made by a soft-bodied marine bristle worm belonging to a group known as spionids.

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Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses.

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He was hooked as soon as his colleague Michael Bok at Lund University showed him a recording of the bristle worm.

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The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones -- relatively speaking.

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And it was this combination of factors about the Vanadis bristle worm that really caught Anders Garm's attention.

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