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.

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 ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The underwater mountains of the northwest Pacific are ...

Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze ... it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan ...

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 ...