From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures ...

The vast array of organisms in the deep sea remains a mystery to humans. Now, marine biologists can add one more puzzle to the list. A collection of odd materials was discovered nearly four miles ...

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 want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature. On Nov. 4, the Schmidt Ocean Institute posted a video of one of its recent finds on Instagram. The nonprofit is ...

Four newly discovered species living near deep-sea cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, and whale carcasses off the coasts of California and Mexico are described in a new article. The new discoveries ...

Inside deep-sea coral in the Pacific, an iridescent creature waits in ambush. Zhou Y, Zhang R, Shen C, Mao Q, Zhang M, Zhang D (2025) ZooKeys The summaries below were drafted with the help of AI ...

Since the worms live in the deep sea, these flashes are a contrast to the dark environment and may distract predators-instead of getting a bite of worm, they are left with nothing.

New deep-sea worm discovered at methane seep off Costa Rica The creature raises the number of new species found by scientists studying these seemingly inhospitable ecosystems to 48 Date: March 6, 2024 ...

Deep on the ocean floor, strange worm-like creatures can be found, the evolution of which has long perplexed scientists. Now, in a recently published study, researchers from Japan have observed an ...

Bone-eating worms, the deep-sea creatures that feed on whale skeletons and other bones, dissolve their dinner in an acid bath. Now scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...

From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures in the deep ocean.