Beneath the ocean floor, under ... Sea Research. "We could not believe our eyes." They saw giant tubeworms (Riftia pachyptila), each up to half a metre long, as well as snails and other types of ...
Divers off the coast of New Zealand came face to face with a giant sea worm that was almost 30-foot ... turtles and spiny lobsters cling to the tubes and can feed for weeks at a time.
The pale worm ... under the South American plate. The confluence of tectonic forces and terrestrial influences makes this margin a natural laboratory for investigating chemosynthetic and deep-sea ...
In 2016 and 2017, researchers dropped cow bones into the deep sea off the coast of Brazil at ... The research team expected to find colonies of marine worms, crustaceans and mollusks.