people who have come into contact with a bobbit worm's mouth claim that it can produce a nasty sting that may leave the skin ...

There are some freaky eyeballs out there in the wider animal kingdom, but a type of marine worm has scientists boggling. They're called alciopid polychaete worms, and their eyes are simply enormous.

The carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia robertballardi should make an easy meal of the tiny scale worm Neopolynoe africana, as it would with other polychaetes. But instead it allows this species to ...

A rotary actuated dodecahedron (RAD-2) encapsulates a holoplanktonic polychaete (Tomopteris, a marine worm). Video from remotely operated vehicle (ROV), SuBastian science camera, Schmidt Ocean ...

Giant worms found wriggling under the Pacific seabed have unveiled a thriving ecosystem in a fiercely hostile environment, ...

Tubeworm larvae, sea snails, and marine worms were uncovered living in tiny caves underneath the ocean floor, revealing life is interconnected below and above it. An eelpout swims by a tower of ...

One technique involves feeding the algae, which cover thousands of hectares, to polychaete worms and then converting it to food for aquatic-farmed animals. It can also be tackled by introducing ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands. Giant worms ...

Lenine’s symptoms began in the spring of 2016, with severe headaches that seemed to bloom each night when he lay down to sleep, piercing his temples and leaving him squinting in bright lights ...

The cavities hid an underwater zoo of adult worms, limpets in shells, polychaetes, or bristle worms, and marine snails. Also read: Rate of ocean warming has nearly doubled since 2005: EU monitor ...

The cavities hid an underwater zoo of adult worms, limpets in shells, polychaetes, or bristle worms, and marine snails. Bright said the team's work showed that "unexpected discoveries" can be made ...