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

Scientists discovered a shimmering polychaete worm in the Chile Margin, fascinating viewers and advancing ocean research.

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

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 ...

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 ...