They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out.

A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...

But, believe it or not, this oddball worm has been living in the Southern Ocean for years — it’s just now catching attention thanks to social media. So, what makes this worm so special?

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Deep sea explorers want you to break out the "jazz hands" for this creature.

Clad in thick, red gear that contrasts with the blue and white landscape, researchers retrieve worms from the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean circling Antarctica. They will bring these squirming ...

This octopus seen at 885-feet was covered in worm-like leeches when a camera found it on the seafloor off Montagu Island in the South Atlantic. Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab It was one ...

“The material described herein was found during a freezer clean up: in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a ...

The worm was “relatively large and long” compared ... part of an island chain in the northern Indian Ocean just south of India. The research team included Vitaly Syomin, Glafira Kolbasova ...