The Schmidt Ocean Institute shared footage from it's Chile Margin expedition on Instagram that shows a sparkling deep-sea ...

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

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

Feeding on Worms: Many bubble snail species, like the miniature melo, feed on cirratulid polychaete worms. These worms have ...

including polychaete worms, sea snails, and the giant tube worm, Riftia pachyptila. Some of the same species were also found ...

They no longer filter food from water, feeding instead on aquatic invertebrates such as polychaete worms and crustaceans. Ana explains, 'There is a sponge that allows a polychaete to live in a furrow ...

They found carnivorous polychaete worms and heat-tolerant limpets that seem to have slipped between the cracks in the seafloor to colonise the cavities underneath. There were also tubeworms.

pachyptila and O. alvinae and the mussels B. thermophilus, as well as polychaete worms and limpets, among the species living in undersea cavities. To get a sense of the conditions under the ...

An elaborate characterization of the mucus of the polychaete Myxicola infundibulum was recently completed. After identifying the elemental composition, a more comprehensive analysis was performed ...

Emily Frost runs the Smithsonian Natural History Museum's Ocean Portal. She is based in Washington, D.C. Scientists who explore the depths using submersibles continue to discover amazing animals ...