A SPARKLY deep-sea worm has stunned researchers with its rainbow-like bristles in a 3,000ft ocean trench off the coast of Chile. The bristle worm, known as a polychaete, was caught on camera ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed.

Using a remote vehicle, scientists first noticed the so-called a mystery mollusk in February 2000 at a depth of 8,576 feet in the Pacific.