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

“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 ...

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

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 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 ...