Detecting strange creatures whose heads do not have bodies

Oceanographers have discovered in the Pacific Ocean an unusual "worm" that larvae have their heads and have no body at all.

Mysterious creatures have heads without bodies.

This news is published in Current Biology."If you look at this larva, you get the impression that you are seeing a large worm that has decided to stop growing its body but only bulging its head to turn into a" ball "and then swimming in the great Positive, collect plankton.

Such inhibition is probably very important for larvae, because it helps them swim freely in the water column, " said Paul Gonzalez from Stanford University (USA).

As told by Gonzalez expert, he discovered this was almost entirely accidental, when cultivating the larvae of many different marine animals. These bizarre worms, as scientists say, live in an adult state in the sandy bottom of the sea, parasitizing other animals that live deep in the ocean floor.