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It looks like a bizarre variety of squid, but this creature that biologists found in the Celebes Sea, off Borneo, is actually a new species of worm. The $650-million, decade-long census project is due to finish next year.

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( Larry Madin / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. )

It looks like a bizarre variety of squid, but this creature that biologists found in the Celebes Sea, off Borneo, is actually a new species of worm. The $650-million, decade-long census project is due to finish next year.

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