Some marine worms have developed a strange reproduction strategy: They essentially grow a second worm on their rear ends, head and all. ... This body form is known as an epitoke.

An epitoke swims in a bottle cap. Screengrab from South Carolina Department of Natural Resource's Facebook page. Swarms of four-eyed, hook-jawed sea worms have been spotted along the South ...

The worms are blind, owing to the total darkness that they experience 3,280 feet under the ocean. ... Many species of ragworm have two distinct life stages–atoke and epitoke.

Clam worms, also called ragworms or sandworms, can get pretty big, reaching almost a meter in length. You can find them in almost all shallow water marine environments from Newfoundland to ...

An epitoke swims in a bottle cap. Screengrab from South Carolina Department of Natural Resource's Facebook page. Swarms of four-eyed, hook-jawed sea worms have been spotted along the South ...

An epitoke swims in a bottle cap. Screengrab from South Carolina Department of Natural Resource's Facebook page. Swarms of four-eyed, hook-jawed sea worms have been spotted along the South ...

An epitoke swims in a bottle cap. Screengrab from South Carolina Department of Natural Resource's Facebook page. Swarms of four-eyed, hook-jawed sea worms have been spotted along the South ...

An epitoke swims in a bottle cap. Screengrab from South Carolina Department of Natural Resource's Facebook page. Swarms of four-eyed, hook-jawed sea worms have been spotted along the South ...