An ongoing ocean expedition to a dynamic marine realm off the little-explored Chilean coast — with seeps and vents emitting ...

The deep sea gives rise to all sorts of adaptations and in the case of this recently recorded species, ended up making ...

The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ...

"Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia covered in bristles called chaetae. Some worms are bioluminescent, but this sassy sparkler has protein structures in the ...

Meet the sixgill. You can see this slowly-moving creature's sparkling bristles, or chaetae, in the video below. Tweet may have been deleted Polychaetes are extremely diverse organisms.

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Schmidt Ocean Institute/Instagram A polychaete deep-sea worm filmed by the Schmidt ...

View this post on Instagram "Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia covered in bristles called chaetae. Some worms are bioluminescent, but this sassy sparkler has protein ...