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This probably looks like a bunch of tiny individual orange worms tangled together. But it is, in face, a worm belonging to the genus Cirratulus that can get to around 12 centimeters in length. And along with its distinctive color, the worm is easy to spot in wet sandy mud because of those threads you can see waving across your screen. Some of these threads are tentacles, but others are actually gills. and in the water, those threads seem to float serenely. But this effect is lost on land. In a paper from the beginning of the 20th century titled "notes on the ecology of cirratulus tentaculatus," the author wrote, "when withdrawn from the mud Curratulus presents an exceeding limp and bedraggled appearance."