Branching Marine Worms - Are They Parasitic?

No food has been found inside of these worms, but their guts seem to be fully functional. Their entire body might be dedicated to branching out as wide as possible and touching and digesting as much like free floating ocean crud as it can. So since we can't figure hat they'r eating exactly, it's not allso clear what relationship the worms in the sponge have li it's parasitic or symbiotic. Butts is avorthing about marine worms, eys that their genitals become free living organism sicil gys. It's beautifulliya. Ye guys don't even know. And i'm about to tell you why. Most likely, they're doing this

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