The “lost and found” animal was a marine worm called a polychaete, according to the study. However, a few key features set the worm apart from previously described species. The holotype ...

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 ...

Reducing the worms' activity—for example, by lowering the temperature of their environment—caused them to spread through the maze even more, highlighting a counterintuitive interplay between ...