These strange worms are a type of polychaete worm that belong to the family Nereididae commonly known as clam worms. Polycheate worms are set apart from other marine worms by bristles (known as cheate ...

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For hundreds of years, biologists knew of the giant shipworm only from shell fragments and a handful of dead specimens. Those specimens, despite being preserved in museum jars, had gone to mush. Still ...

The bivalves were about a foot deep on the Washington Avenue beach in Margate. Mussels also washed up in Ventnor. Swimmers had to dodge clam worms on the sand in Atlantic City and Brigantine. The ...