In the Kumano Sea, off the southeast coast of Japan, an evolutionary mystery lays in wait. Researchers have collected samples from the muddy sea floor, including hermit crabs, mollusks and discarded ...

Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have described and named four new species of scale worms from deep-sea habitats in the eastern Pacific Ocean. These deep-sea worms ...

Here’s a closer look at the newly-discovered scale worms: (A) Peinaleopolynoe orphanae, (B) Peinaleopolynoe elvisi, (C) Peinaleopolynoe goffrediae and (D)Peinaleopolynoe mineoi. What’s covered in ...

It’s time for the blobfish to move over. There’s another ugly sea creature in town (or the reefs, rather), and it’s essentially nightmare fuel. This is what Eulagisca gigantea, or the Antarctic scale ...