Giant sandworms existed in Taiwan 20 million years ago

Researchers have discovered that giant sandworms, previously known only in fiction, actually roamed the seafloor near Taiwan millions of years ago. The predatory creatures were identified based on the reconstruction of an ancient trace fossil that turned out to be a burrow used by the worms.  Study lead author Yu-Yen Pan is a PhD student in Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University. She explained that the trace fossil was found in a rocky area near coastal Taiwan. These types of fossils are part of a research …