So the team extracted dna from the new worms and discovered they were indeed.
Creepy worm ocean floor.
This species is an ambush predator and hunts by burrowing its whole body in soft sediment on the ocean floor and waits until nearby prey is picked up on one.
Eunice aphroditois is a bristle worm ranging from less than 10 cm 4 in to 3 m 10 ft long that inhabits burrows it creates on the ocean floor.
The iridescent worm buries its body which can grow up to 10 feet long making it one of the longest polychaetes in the world in the sea floor but leaves its head with five sensory antennae.