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 dedicated ...

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 live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti. Its feathery appendages are called parapodia and carry the worm’s gills. These deep-sea dwellers have a hidden ...

A new deep-sea worm was discovered in a methane seep located about 50 kilometers off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. This marine research was also supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation ...

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 ...

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