Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered the worm while using their 7,055-pound robotic explorer ROV SuBastian. They sent the underwater robot to search on the ocean floor and this ...

The discovered creature is a polychaete, a class of marine worms better known as bristle worms. Source: Screenshot from the video Researchers from the Schmidt Institute of Oceanography have spotted a ...

Food usually brings bristleworms out, so use a bristleworm trap, baited with food, and try grabbing the big ones with tweezers and removing them. They are pretty harmless but unsightly, and some are ...

All worms of both groups live in tubes, however, and they have paired gills used for respiration and feeding. The sabellids construct a tube from detritus and mucous — out of which they extend a ...

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 ...

With the help of a diving robot, researchers off the coast of Chile have succeeded in taking pictures (see video) of an obscure-looking deep-sea creature. At first glance, the creature could ...

The animal is a polychaete - a class of marine worms, more widely known as bristle worms. 'To describe this polychaete, one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep ...

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 ...