A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange spaghetti-like tentacles recently made its internet debut in newly released video footage. The unusual pom-pomshaped creature is a type of segmented marine worm known as a polychaete and belongs to an appropriately named group: spaghetti worms. Researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured footage of the pasta-mimicking worm in 2012 using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) while they were exploring the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico.