Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. The small south St. Johns County community of Marineland iswell known for its dolphins, but a team of researchers at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Science is studying a much, much smaller animal.
Elaine Seaver heads up research on Capitella teleta, a small marine worm that she hopes will shed light on how organisms regenerate damaged parts of their bodies.
“It looks a little bit like a miniature earthworm. It’s pink, it’s segmented,” Seaver explains. “This is an animal which is found in a lot of different locations.”…