Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Giant, tubular creature is not a worm, but a free-floating colony

ZME Science It’s one of the most amazing creatures you’ve never heard about: the pyrosome. It often looks like a giant inflatable underwater balloon, or a tube-like worm, but it’s actually made of hundreds or thousands of individuals known as zooids. “One long pyrosome is actually a collection of thousands of clones, with each individual capable of copying itself and adding to



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