A ten-year study found that zombie worms are missing from the ocean floor in waters off British Columbia’s coast—a finding ...

The absence of zombie worms on these bones suggests that the expanding oxygen minimum zones in the northeast Pacific and ...

In a scary movie, creatures that can't always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In ...

It’s appropriate, at Halloween, to be learning about a creature nicknamed “the bone devourer” – which is honestly somehow ...

According to research published last year, the disappearance of the bone-eating, deep-sea zombie worm could be the result of ...

A deep-sea experiment off the B.C. coast has revealed a troubling absence - the so-called “zombie worm,” a bone-eating ...

The second expedition took researchers to the Southern Ocean’s Bellingshausen Sea, off West Antarctica. The team was the ...

What happens when the ocean’s giants die? Despite their blubbery bodies, whales eventually sink to the bottom in what are called “whale falls,” becoming an essential source of food, nutrients and ...

A standout discovery was this new predatory sponge. Its spherical form is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey.

It’s an animal that could be the stuff of nightmares. A worm that slithers like a snake and has the head of a shark and the Missouri Department of Conservation is warning residents to keep an eye out ...

Researchers are not even halfway through analyzing the thousands of samples collected from the Southern Ocean, but they've ...

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