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Thousands of tiny worms form eerie tentacle-like structure to find food

Recently, scientists observed a living tower of worms in nature for the first time. The footage shows an eerie white structure moving like a tentacle — this is actually thousands of nematodes working together to search for food. Nematodes, or roundworms, are microscopic organisms found virtually everywhere, from soil and water to the bodies of plants and animals.
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