BIG PICTUR E SPAGHETTI WOR M BY ALEXANDER SEMENOV
This lurid tangle of pink tentacles belongs to a 3.5cm-long polychaete worm in the Terebellidae family. It was photographed at the Australian
Museum’s Lizard Island Research Station on the Great Barrier Reef. Polychaetes are near impossible to photograph underwater, so Alexander Semenov
used a Petri dish with a black background and strobe lights to capture images of more than 200 species of worm in the laboratory over 10 days.