Meet the Vanadis bristle worm - a creature no bigger than a piece of spaghetti. This tiny marine worm lives around the Italian island of Ponza and is nocturnal, which means it sleeps in the day ...

Scientists are perplexed by the discovery of a marine worm with giant eyes that are 20 times heavier than its head and that give it vision as sharp as a mammal. The eyes of the Vanadis bristle ...

Paleontologists have revealed a giant new species of prehistoric "worm lizard" with a powerful bite that is the largest of its kind found to date. The newly identified creature, named ...

The Vanadis bristle worm (Vanadis formosa ... University of Copenhagen and Lund University were intrigued by these giant red ...

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 ...

The long-lost worm is Haplosyllis anthogorgicola, a species of bristle worm, or polychaete. It typically measures no more than 0.24 inches (6 millimeters), and it burrows inside branching ...