Not from "National Enquirer", but
Remembering that pygmy seahorses are a popular photographic target of tourists diving among corals, the researchers began searching for pictures of them on the iNaturalist website—a place where tourists or amateur scientists can post pictures of creatures or things related to science or research efforts.
In so doing, they found that many of the pictures of seahorses had images of H. anthogorgicola in the background. The worms had been photobombing the seahorses for many years, it turns out. Thus, the worm had never gone into hiding or disappeared, it had simply been forgotten about by marine scientists.
Link: Worm species thought to have disappeared has been appearing in photos of pygmy seahorses all along
Remembering that pygmy seahorses are a popular photographic target of tourists diving among corals, the researchers began searching for pictures of them on the iNaturalist website—a place where tourists or amateur scientists can post pictures of creatures or things related to science or research efforts.
In so doing, they found that many of the pictures of seahorses had images of H. anthogorgicola in the background. The worms had been photobombing the seahorses for many years, it turns out. Thus, the worm had never gone into hiding or disappeared, it had simply been forgotten about by marine scientists.
Link: Worm species thought to have disappeared has been appearing in photos of pygmy seahorses all along
