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 ...

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. Her ...

"Ten to 12 years ago ... if you wanted to catch a trophy sea trout, you came here. Now ... it is a unicorn," said fishing ...

To blunt the toxic arsenic in the waters where it lives, a deep-sea worm combines it with another chemical to produce a less toxic compound. By Jack Tamisiea Arsenic is a toxic metal, and exposure to ...

Deep in the Pacific Ocean, a tiny bright yellow worm called Paralvinella hessleri thrives where almost nothing else can, around boiling hydrothermal vents that gush metal-rich, poisonous fluids. These ...

Worms that inhabit hydrothermal vents combine environmental arsenic and sulfide to form a nontoxic mineral to survive in a harsh environment. Unlike this vibrant worm, most other deep-sea denizens ...

At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the ...

Image of the alvinellid worm, Paralvinella hessleri. A P. hessleri specimen with buccal tentacles extroverted, lateral view. Note that the animal has a bright yellow color A deep sea worm that ...

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out. A laboratory image of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, aka the "pigbutt worm," an ...