A polychaete worm that lives in whale carcasses, sunken wood, and methane seeps on the deep seafloor has been formally named, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Somewhere in the pitch-black water column off the Galápagos Islands, a translucent worm drifted in front of a deep-sea camera ...

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 ...

Real photos of an underwater worm you’ll wish were AI 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.

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There is a type of sea worm that, believe it or not, detaches its own butt from the rest of its body which then swims off in search of a mate. But how this process occurs has always been a mystery, ...

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, ...

A tiny nocturnal worm native to the Mediterranean Sea has eyes as sharp as mammals, according to neuro and marine biologist Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Biology. The ...

Some segmented sea worms like the syllid worm go through a reproductive process called stolonization. The stolon is the worm’s posterior organ and it is full of eggs or sperm depending on the worm’s ...