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“The scale worms have been believed to be descendants of a different species that INVADED the deep-sea millions of years ago.”

Is there some worm-based geopolitical lore I’m missing??

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Clearly they’re aliens

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Got tired of posing as Egyptian gods.

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Benna! Ya wan ya duru!

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Oh funny, in the wiki article it mentions black coral to be megafauna. Never thought of corals as megafauna, fascinating!

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And TIL the word megafauna so thanks!

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Superorganism is a great term that kinda applies as well.

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Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!

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The deep sea has always been the home of nightmare fuel. Not outer space.

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I was pretty confident this was someone’s (hopefully joke) tail butt plug. How is this a really thing?

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