These palolo worm relatives are called green paddle worms, common in eastern and northern Australia. Green paddle worms keep their sex cells to themselves, each segment making and shedding its own ...

THE periodical autumnal swarming in the seas around the Samoan Islands of the annelid locally known as the palolo has attracted the attention of residents in those islands and naturalists generally ...

With the first taste of palolo I understood the Samoans’ love for it. Certainly it suggested a salty caviar, but with something added, a strong, rich whiff of the mystery and fecundity of the ocean ...

IN your interesting note on the palolo worm of Samoa (NATURE, March 31, p. 523) an error has crept in about the wawo of Rumphius, which is said to be doubtless the ...