Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

The disco caterpillar is actually a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm known as a bristle worm ... differences found on ...

(Read the scientific publication here.) Ophryotrocha bohnorum is a small deep-sea worm with mighty jaws, found at hydrothermal vents near Tonga. It is named in recognition of Jeffrey and Brenda Bohn ...

We are exploring the role of hydrothermal vents in driving the evolution of novel adaptations in deep-sea animals, throughout the 500+ million year history of complex life on our planet. In many parts ...

From anemones to worms: A number of weird creatures have been retrieved from the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean. Controversial proposals to allow deep-sea mining will be centre-stage ...

Sir John Ross lowers a line more than a mile into the North Atlantic and hauls up worms and a large sea star. Norwegians haul up from the deep a sea lily, a living fossil previously found only in ...