New species of worms discovered in ocean

Two strange new species of worms, without eyes or stomachs or even mouths, have been discovered living on the bones of dead whales in California’s Monterey Bay.
“Who knows what we can learn here,” researcher Robert Vrijenhoek said. “There are many things left to discover in this world. Some we find by accident … and some we find because we look in places that few people have explored before, as in much of our work in the deep oceans.”
In this case, it was a bit of both because the unexpected discovery was made about 9,400 feet below the surface.
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