Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a world teeming with creatures whose lives are as enigmatic as they are extraordinary. Among ...

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, occurring approximately 540 million years ago, marked a dramatic diversification of life. Animal diversity expanded alongside novel burrowing strategies and ...

Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the ...

“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 ...

"Everyone in the control room let out a loud 'Oooooh!' at the same time. We were all enchanted," a researcher said.

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 ...

The deep sea is home to a lot of weird creatures. Some are brand new species ... The disco caterpillar is actually a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm known as a bristle worm, for obvious ...

A team of deep sea explorers with the Schmidt Ocean Institute found a “fantastic” spiral on a square block off the coast of ...

Osedax worms are called a “bone-eating” species, but they actually don’t eat the bone at all, according to the Smithsonian ...

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