Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...

Ocean worms are scientifically known as Polychaetes, with "poly" meaning many and "chaete" meaning hairs, and they are among the most diverse marine organisms on the planet.

For the next few weeks, the state’s marine monitoring team will collect sediment and organism samples across Puget Sound ...

The carnivorous sponge Chondrocladia robertballardi should make an easy meal of the tiny scale worm Neopolynoe africana, as it would with other polychaetes. But instead it allows this species to ...

Researchers took a closer look at the sea worms and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Sclerobregma nanhaiensis, or the South China Sea polychaete. A Sclerobregma nanhaiensis ...