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Have you noticed small, spiralled heaps on the surface of your lawn in the morning and been left scratching your head? Those ...
Scientists were dazzled after discovering an iridescent, bristled sea worm that is being compared to an aquatic “toilet scrubber.” The nonprofit Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video ...
Sea worm’s reproductive bits grow their own eyes before mating. The branching marine worm has one head, many butts, and a busy sex life. By Laura Baisas. Published May 20, 2025 2:30 PM EDT.
Now, scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm. It was found about 30 miles off of Costa Rica’s Pacific coast in an underwater methane seep.
The sea worm Platynereis dumerilii is only a few centimeters long but has a remarkable ability: in just a few days, it can regenerate entire parts of its body after an injury or amputation. By ...
The worm also throws out its proboscis as a defensive strategy—and that’s what we’re seeing in the video, Kvist says. The worm tries to defend itself by casting out the proboscis, which ...
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 ...
Ancient fossils shed new light on evolution of sea worm . Embargoed until 00.01 GMT Wednesday 01 February/19.01 EST Tuesday 31 January 2023 (Proceedings of the Royal Society B embargo) ...
A group of researchers in Japan have discovered three new species of sea worms that quite literally glow in the dark.. The new bioluminescent Polycirrus worms, which emit a blue-violet light, were ...
Scientists were dazzled after discovering an iridescent, bristled sea worm that is being compared to an aquatic "toilet scrubber." The nonprofit Schmidt Ocean Institute recently shared a video of ...
Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and ...
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 ...