Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed.
“To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented marine worm], one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm’s dazzle!” they wrote. Accompanying footage shows the ...
A SPARKLY deep-sea worm has stunned researchers with its rainbow-like bristles in a 3,000ft ocean trench off the coast of ...
Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen ...
A small team of marine scientists from the University of the Ryukyus, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and ...
In this desolate environment, one creature brings the pizzazz. An international team of researchers organized through the ...
Earth's oceans are full of strange creatures. A team of scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute have found a ...
The bristle worm, known as a polychaete, was caught on camera inside the Chile Margin, a trench that extends the entire ...
The polychaete was seen as part of the #ChileMargin2024 mission. This is a 55-day mission that will see the team exploring ...
A species of marine that scientists lost sight of for almost 70 years recently made its comeback when researchers discovered ...
Researchers from the Schmidt Institute of Oceanography have spotted a strange animal at the junction of three tectonic plates ...