An 8-inch-long marine worm that lives in the waters near Antarctica has an oval body ringed with shiny golden bristles and topped with a sharp-toothed maw. It somewhat resembles a decoration for the ...

Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature. On Nov. 4, the Schmidt Ocean Institute posted a video of one of its recent finds on Instagram. The nonprofit is dedicated ...

The nonprofit Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video of the hairy ocean inhabitant — which it dubbed a “sassy sparkler” — on Instagram. “To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented ...

Unbeknownst to most landlubbers, polychaetes rule the seas. There are at least 10,000 species of these swimming bristly worms, some of which pop with brilliant colors or light up with a bioluminescent ...

The lessons invertebrate zoologist Karen Osborn learns from the tiny worms may have robotic implications Megan Kalomiris Cirratulidae polychaete worms are covered in tangled strands of external gills.

Deep in the ocean there are two animals living in unexpected harmony. A small species of scale worm chooses to make its home inside a carnivorous sponge. The sponge could eat the worm, but it doesn't ...

I love that the internet can bring together collectives of people working toward a common goal on something for the greater good. In beauty that is Reddit, we have the community of r/photoshopbattles ...

These strange worms are a type of polychaete worm that belong to the family Nereididae commonly known as clam worms. Polycheate worms are set apart from other marine worms by bristles (known as cheate ...

In 2013, a group led by researchers at the Natural History Museum in London used the then-Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Research Vessel Melville to travel to the Central Pacific ...

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It was only a matter of time before the humble worm got its own day. July 1 is the first International Polychaete Day, and museums around the world—including the Australian Museum, London's Natural ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...