Christmas tree worms and other fan worms have improvised some of the oddest eyes.
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Images. When executed, christmas tree displays an ascii christmas tree. Once they find a good place on a live calcareous coral, they burrow a hole and live their for the rest of their lives, occasionally emerging from their home to catch passing plankton with their fully extended plumes.
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When executed, christmas tree displays an ascii christmas tree. It lives in tropical oceans, not tannenbaums, embedding itself in coral reefs and growing bizarre, colorful structures that sort of resemble a whoville christmas tree — hence the name. Reef life a guide to tropical marine life animals.
To celebrate the holidays, we're taking a look at a very festive kind of bristle.
Brightly coloured christmas tree worms, also known as spirobranchus giganteus (pictured), earn their name due to the spiral of feathery gills and tentacles. Jewel stone, bisma worm rock. These appendages are used for respiration and to catch food. The christmas tree worm doesn't like to move about much.
