A deep sea worm that inhabits hydrothermal vents survives the high levels of toxic arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them in its cells to form a less hazardous mineral. Chaolun Li of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male stolon (right hand side): one of the independent reproductive units of a branching marine worm, growing at the tip of a ...

Marine biologists have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers (30 miles) off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San ...

Scientists named 1,121 new marine species in a single year, including a deep-sea ghost shark and a worm that lives inside a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. There is a type of sea worm that, believe it or not, detaches its own ...

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The rare creatures, which are made up of 60 to 150 different segments, can reproduce sexually or asexually Jace Tunnell/Harte Research Institute Rare venomous sea worms have recently been found on a ...

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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 ...

It's time for the blobfish to move over. There's another ugly sea creature in town (or the reefs, rather), and it's essentially nightmare fuel. This is what Eulagisca gigantea, or the Antarctic scale ...

A University of Kansas paleontologist exploring an area known for its fossils recently uncovered a never-before-discovered ancient sea worm – and showed off her “nerdy” side while naming it. When ...

Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some 50 kilometers ...