Spaghetti worm genus gets named; new species Terebellosuctoria jimii

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTime to pay that off: scientists have described a whole new genus of deep-sea spaghetti worms from the Indian Ocean, and one of the new species is called Terebellosuctoria jimii.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThey live on the dark seafloor with long, stringy feeding tentacles, and ScienceAlert's headline calls them nightmare worms, which is rude to a worm that just got a name.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOf course it's a nightmare. Everything down there has been waiting in the dark for centuries, and now we've gone and written it down.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSame ocean, same ridges as the coral we mentioned overnight. It's getting crowded for a place nobody visits.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHank, I'm just saying, these worms are a mascot. Spaghetti with legs. Put them on a cereal box.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNo.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorRex has the football, and I'm told he has opinions about a mascot too.