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.

“To describe this polychaete [a type of segmented marine worm], one simply must use jazz hands — it is the only way to capture this deep-sea worm’s dazzle!” they wrote. Accompanying ...

Polychaete worms like Eulagisca gigantea are incredibly diverse and can be found in all kinds of ocean environments. From ...

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 ...

Modern sand strikers are polychaete worms, belonging to the same group of animals as the sand worms that make little bubbles as the tide ebbs at the beach. But sand strikers can get much bigger ...

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these ...

a marine ecologist at the University of Portsmouth – who co-authored a recent study in the journal Fish and Fisheries – there are 121 tonnes of polychaete (marine worms such as ragworm ...

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 ...