A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature.

Also found on a submarine canyon floor: a deep-sea worm sometimes called a "disco worm," but scientifically known as a polychaete (which means “many bristles”), glittering like sparkly steel wool.

Learn more about some of the best new discoveries: Off the southern coast of Japan, a new species of marine bristle worm, ...

Caption A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti after the lead Alvin pilot, Bruce Strickrott of WHOI who helped discover it. Its feathery appendages ...

She had previously studied deep-sea methane vents, and among the most common forms of life around those vents were tube worms. With further testing, the researchers determined that the black ...