also known as giant beard worms. These remarkable creatures can grow up to three meters in length, making them true giants of the deep sea. Riftia pachyptila has long been known to thrive around ...

However, a deep-sea exploration conducted by Schmidt Ocean Institute last year revealed that giant tube worms live there as ... to be transported through bottom, ridge, and ocean currents before ...

Giant creatures evolve beneath the ocean's surface. Their discovery changes ... These are cavities filled with hydrothermal fluids, surrounded by giant worms that can reach lengths of up to 10 feet (3 ...

"There are indications of landslides occurring in several other places on the bottom of the southern Baltic Sea, but we don't know whether they occurred over a long period of time or at around the ...

Its habitat lies at the junction of three tectonic plates in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the worm while using their 7,055-pound robotic ...

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 ...

More information: Georgios L Georgalis et al, The world's largest worm lizard: a new giant trogonophid (Squamata: Amphisbaenia) with extreme dental adaptations from the Eocene of Chambi ...

The disco caterpillar is actually a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm known as a bristle worm ... marine ecosystem cleaning ...

Global warming means that we’re now in a race for knowledge about the ocean before it’s exploited beyond recognition.

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.

Deep sea explorers ... of 'Giant Spiders' that Grow to Be the Size of a Human Hand One of the critters the robotic explorer captured on camera was a polychaete, a type of deep-sea worm.

“To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented marine worm], one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm’s dazzle!” they wrote. Accompanying ...