From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

What lives off the Northwest coasts of Spain and shrinks to one-fifth of its size when alarmed? Enter the accordion worm.

They are large rafts that drift thousands of kilometers across the ocean surface, moving with the currents in an otherwise ...

Industrial fishing has caused immense damage to ocean life, but given the right protection, the sea has miraculous powers of ...

That animal is a ribbon worm — and a newly discovered species. Researchers found the marine worm off Galicia, Spain, during scuba diving trips in the summer of 2021, according to a study published May ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an undersea volcanic mountain chain.

Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had ...

Living in tubes attached to hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean, these worms endure temperatures up to 80°C (176°F) on one end of their bodies, while their heads bask in cooler water. Their backs are ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

A NASA-led satellite mission has suggested that swirls and eddies in the middle of the ocean have a bigger influence on Earth's climate system than scientists previously realized. Measuring changes in ...

Ocean worms are scientifically known as Polychaetes, with "poly" meaning many and "chaete" meaning hairs, and they are among the most diverse marine organisms on the planet.