“To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented marine worm], one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm’s dazzle!” they wrote. Accompanying ...

A SPARKLY deep-sea worm has stunned researchers with its rainbow-like bristles in a 3,000ft ocean trench off the coast of Chile. The bristle worm, known as a polychaete, was caught on camera ...

Scientists were dazzled after discovering an iridescent, bristled sea worm that is being compared to an aquatic “toilet scrubber.” The nonprofit Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video ...

A ship-eating sea worm could soon be sold by supermarkets ... is different from many other molluscs in that it does not have a shell. Instead, using two small plates on its head, the shipworm ...

"To describe this polychaete, one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm's dazzle," the Schmidt Ocean Institute captioned the worm clip. "Each body segment ...

The disco caterpillar is actually a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm known as a bristle worm, for obvious reasons. There are around 13,000 species of polychaete that live in marine ecosystems ...