“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 ...

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 ...

which accounted for the "green goo" Mr Norris's daughter saw spilling out of one. Many species of sea worms fall apart and die after spawning, which Dr Hutchings said was a process that occurred ...

Animals that live in the sea don't usually ... If you use normal blue or green light as bioluminescence, you also risk attracting predators. But, if instead, the worm uses UV light, it will ...

A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti after the lead Alvin pilot, Bruce Strickrott of WHOI who helped discover it.