The worms are too far from sunlight to be seen by other marine life. These Peinaleopolynoe worms were found thousands of meters underwater in Monterey Canyon, California.

An expedition in the Red Sea found several brine pools that appear to be fed by underwater volcanoes, which may be home to ...

Critters Why a Rare Underwater Worm May Be Key to Saving Baffin Bay Marine scientists are trying to save reef-building serpulid worms, which keep fish (and anglers) coming.

Healing powers for one of the world's deadliest diseases may lie within sponges, sea worms and other underwater creatures. A scientist is analyzing more than 2,500 samples from marine organisms ...

Severely Affecting Marine Life In 2022, an ocean eruption apparently left several underwater beings grasping for breath. This eruption occurred due to the Hunga volcano, which released a 37-mile plume ...

Found along the Californian coast, sandcastle worms are reef-building marine animals so named because they construct shelter out of grains of sand that are bound together by a strong underwater ...

An underwater volcano near Tonga revealed how sediment spreads, disrupts marine life, and raises questions about deep-sea ...

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 ...

Tube worms rising 6 feet (1.8 meters) from the seafloor were first discovered in 1977 next to hydrothermal vents in Pacific waters at the Galapagos near where the underwater tectonic plates spread.

Underwater light show was glow of 3 new species, study says. ... The third sea worm was named Polycirrus aoandon after a Japanese folk spirit, the blue lantern, that matches its glow.

Discovery Shows Underwater Plants Pollinated By Marine Worms : Short Wave Plants living underwater can't count on pollinating insects to get it on. The prevailing theory has been that pollen moves ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed. The animal is a polychaete - a class of marine worms, more widely known as ...