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.

Unlike the "mime" of the sea that tricks predators into believing ... The bristles of the sand striker and its long body are deadly. The bobbit worm is most active and luminous at night when ...

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 ...

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 ...