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The species documented included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan — spanning multiple branches of the animal kingdom.
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Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
The species found included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
Species documented in the Nankai Trough included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan — mollusks, worms, crustaceans, starfish relatives, and more, thriving in a place scientists barely knew anything about.
—Ryan Brennan
march 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
Most of the roughly 1,300 species of ribbon worms are just a few millimeters wide and can be quite long—one species, Lineus longissimus, can measure up to 55 meters, or twice the average length of a blue whale.
—Marina Wang, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2026
The ribbon worms detect chemical signals from their environment to find food.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Tully has been compared to gastropods (slugs and snails), conodonts (an extinct group of jawless vertebrates), polychaetes (segmented marine worms), nemerteans (ribbon worms), and nectocarids (a squid-like Cambrian organism) in the ensuing decades.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
Researchers at the Downeast Institute, a marine research lab and education center, say the highest risk to these clams is predators such as the invasive green crab and milky ribbon worm, which are thriving in the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters.
—Washington Post, 25 July 2021
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Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
The species found included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan.
—Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 11 Mar. 2026
Species documented in the Nankai Trough included 33 molluscs, 23 annelids, 11 arthropods, five ribbon worms, four echinoderms, three cnidarians, and one bryozoan — mollusks, worms, crustaceans, starfish relatives, and more, thriving in a place scientists barely knew anything about.
—Ryan Brennan
march 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
Most of the roughly 1,300 species of ribbon worms are just a few millimeters wide and can be quite long—one species, Lineus longissimus, can measure up to 55 meters, or twice the average length of a blue whale.
—Marina Wang, Scientific American, 19 Jan. 2026
The ribbon worms detect chemical signals from their environment to find food.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
Tully has been compared to gastropods (slugs and snails), conodonts (an extinct group of jawless vertebrates), polychaetes (segmented marine worms), nemerteans (ribbon worms), and nectocarids (a squid-like Cambrian organism) in the ensuing decades.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
Researchers at the Downeast Institute, a marine research lab and education center, say the highest risk to these clams is predators such as the invasive green crab and milky ribbon worm, which are thriving in the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters.
—Washington Post, 25 July 2021
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“Ribbon worm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ribbon%20worm. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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