A never-before-seen creature has been spotted while researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used an underwater robot to scour the seabed. The animal is a polychaete - a class of marine worms, more widely known as bristle worms. 'To describe this polychaete, one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm's dazzle!' the experts said in a post about the polychaete. Footage of the creature has garnered huge interest, with some dubbing the animal a 'forbidden toilet scrubber', while another joked: 'It looks like two eyelashes put together.'
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