The Bobbit worm has been hiding on the seafloor for at least 20 million years. ... Bobbit worms are omnivores that'll eat anything from macroalgae to small fish.

These monster worms may have been ancestors of trap-jawed modern Bobbit worms (Eunice aphroditois), which also hide in burrows under the ocean floor and can grow to be 10 feet (3 meters) long ...

The bobbit worm is an ambush predator that hides in burrows and silently ambushes unsuspecting fish as soon as its five sensory antennae detect them looming. It slices its prey into two before ...

The University of Bristol compares this ancient worm to modern-day Bobbit worms, which ambush and eat fish or cephalopods like squids. The scientists gave the new worm species an interesting name ...

A 3.5ft (1m) long fish-eating bobbit worm has been found in a tank at an aquatics store in Surrey. The sea creature was found at the Maidenhead Aquatics branch in Woking when a 200 gallon tank was ...

Dolphins, comb jellies, bobbit worms and other animal-eating carnivores are also definitely predators, but you don’t have to necessarily be a carnivore to be a predator.

The latest episode of Blue Planet 2 left many of its viewers terrified after it featured a clip of the Bobbit worm attacking a fish and eating it with its sharp dagger-like jaws.

Some are mobile, but most burrow or build tubes — ranging from dainty, 1-inch wisps like Christmas tree worms to the nightmarish bobbit worm, a seabed-dwelling goliath that can grow nearly 10 ...

A giant fish-eating worm with jaws twice the width of its body has been discovered hiding amongst coral and rocks in a Hull aquarium. Staff at The Deep found the 1m-long (3.2ft) Bobbit worm as the ...

A 3.5ft (1m) long fish-eating bobbit worm has been found in a tank at an aquatics store in Surrey. The sea creature was found at the Maidenhead Aquatics branch in Woking when a 200 gallon tank was ...

A giant fish eating worm with jaws twice the width of its body has been discovered hiding amongst coral and rocks in a Hull aquarium. Staff at The Deep found the one-metre long (3.2ft) Bobbit worm as ...