Hammerhead worms can be up to 12 inches long, with a crescent-shaped head and are usually orange, ... They are shiny and covered in a slime-like substance. Like puffer fish, ...

Flathead worms vary in size from an inch or less to 12 inches long. They can be brown or black and are slimy and shiny in appearance and can have a distinct crescent-shaped “hammer head”.

Scientists found four new members of deep-sea worms in the Gulf of California. Nicknamed 'Elvis worms', the critters have shiny, iridescent scales that look like the King's sequined suits.

An 8-inch-long marine worm that lives in the waters near Antarctica has an oval body ringed with shiny golden bristles and topped with a sharp-toothed maw. It somewhat resembles a decoration for ...

These worms don’t have eyes to see their own scales, and it’s pitch-black on the ocean floor anyways, Robbins reports. Researchers collected the worms at or below 3,281 feet—too deep for ...

The deep-sea worm has been officially named Pectinereis strickrotti after Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Bruce Strickrott, lead pilot for the famed deep-sea submersible Alvin. Stickrott ...

The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones -- relatively speaking.Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of this Mediterranean marine worm, we would need a big ...