A team of deep sea explorers with the Schmidt Ocean Institute ... marine biologists say. They are known as acorn worms, or “spiral poo worms,” and their claim to fame is pattern pooping ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have sequence the genome of the acorn worm and found a wide variety of similar genes ...

24, a team of deep sea explorers with Schmidt Ocean Institute ... This larger image shows the acorn worm was still at the corner of the rock, having just created the artistic spiral with its ...