Mysterious Sea ’Worm’ Spotted Near New Zealand | National Geographic
It’s called a pyrosome—a free-flowing colony of individual organisms known as zooids.
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Two divers filming off the coast of New Zealand spotted something that looked like an enormous plastic bag. Upon closer inspection, the divers discovered that it was an eight-meter long, translucent sea “worm.” It’s called a pyrosome, and it is a free-flowing colony of individual organisms called zooids. Zooids