From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

In the Shichiyo Seamount Chain, scientists discovered coral gardens, sponge-dense habitats, and five new squat lobster ...

Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it’s made of glass—delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that ...

A Paralvinella hessleri specimen with buccal tentacles and a bright yellow color The fluids that bubble up from underneath the Earth here contain high levels of the chemical compound sulfide and the ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

Scientists found worms living inside a glass sponge castle - and that's just one of 38 new species.

Image of the alvinellid worm, Paralvinella hessleri. A P. hessleri specimen with buccal tentacles extroverted, lateral view. Note that the animal has a bright yellow color A deep sea worm that ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the ...

They say just 0.001 percent of the deep ocean has been directly observed, representing a speck on our planet that’s just ...

Pink filamentous bacterial mat with Peinaleopolynoe orphanae scale worm, located at a depth of 2.2 miles (3656 meters). Photo: Schmidt Ocean Institute About those worms—they’re what’s known as ...

A deep-sea worm that lives in hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a toxic, arsenic-containing mineral that was used by artists for centuries A bright-yellow worm that ...