The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, or polychaete. It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching ...

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen ...

The mission, undertaken by the Schmidt Ocean Institute and its 7,055-pound robotic explorer ROV SuBastian, documented a shimmering species of polychaete crawling on the seafloor. It's a ...

The collected images have provided a wealth of knowledge to the research team. Researchers stunned after accidentally ...

A small team of marine scientists from the University of the Ryukyus, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and ...

Others compared the polychaete to everything from “eyelashes” to “toilet scrubbers.” There are around 8,000 known species of these marine worms, which range in size from a few millimeters to around 10 ...

The deep sea is home to a lot of weird creatures. Some are brand new species living in the midnight zone, while others are ...