The ocean is teeming with life, much of it undiscovered, and one recent discovery has the potential to change the face of ...

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Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for "The Lord of the Rings" universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they're very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI tools ...

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 ...

Iskra’s glitter worm and the Elven abyss tunicate among top species recognized by the World Register of Marine Species Scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography described two of ...

An ancient sea worm may hold the secret to a whole new category of natural materials. Its jaws combine proteins and metal ...

Picture a home so beautiful it looks like it's made of glass-delicate, intricate, shimmering. Now imagine discovering that two brand-new species of worms have been quietly living inside one, deep on ...

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