Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Two new worm species were found living inside a real underwater "glass castle." ...

Celebrate World Ocean Day by helping Birch Aquarium at Scripps and researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, name two new species of deep-sea marine worms. One name will be ...

Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors of these bone-burrowers back through 100 million years of evolution. Deep ...

Encircling the frozen continent of Antarctica, the ring-shaped swath called the Southern Ocean is a massive waterbody whose unobstructed currents, roaring waters, and ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, ...

In 1873, an unknown species of deep-sea worm was dredged up from the bottom of the ocean. Further analysis showed that the animal, collected from almost 3.5 miles (5.5 kilometers) beneath the surface, ...

Earlier this year, a team from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), National Museum of Nature and Science (NMNS), and Kochi University (KU) set out to collect specimens of sea worm ...

EuroWorm is building an open genomic inventory of European marine annelids to combat biodiversity loss and accelerate species discovery.

Once they knew that the zombie worms existed, scientists started looking for them more. Because they'd been found on bodies of dead animals at the bottom of the sea, they drug whale carcasses and ...