The animals are not aliens, but giant pile worms, large marine worms that are typically found on the seafloor, but will swarm at the water’s surface to mate, Benjamin Neal, biologist and assistant ...
[New Paper] Meet Delectopecten thermus, a new species of Glass Scallop from a deep-sea hot vent in Okinawa Trough, Japan! We ...
But some giant piling worms are found around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. “When these worms were first discovered, it was amazing. They were huge, about one metre (3 feet) long. When we ...