lugworm

Along the way, Wilbrink had pointed out a Japanese oyster, the outline of a flat fish on the sea’s bottom and squiggly lugworm castings.

She opens her hand to reveal a wriggling lugworm.

Thompson’s research has shown that extremely high levels of plastics in the seabed can harm animals such as lugworms living in the seabed and build up in their tissues.

The lugworm study was published in Environmental Science and Technology.

It has been shown to happen in lugworms, which live in the North Atlantic, and Mason said, “If it happens in lugworms, there’s a pretty good chance that it’s happening in other species.”