The recent project has deep sea researchers using a 7,055-pound robotic explorer named ROV SuBastian to roam and document the ...

Beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge where several tectonic plates meet, giant white worms and other ...

Giant worms appear to be breeding beneath the seafloor ... shallow cavities in the subseafloor of deep-sea hydrothermal vents," researchers wrote in a study published Tuesday (Oct. 15) in the ...

Ralph White/Getty Images But, living organisms such as giant tubeworms, worms and snails were found ... in a shallow subsurface cavity below deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean.

Giant tubeworms, which are known as the world's heftiest worms and can grow to several feet ... Gollner of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research said. A whole new world: Surprising ...

Giant worms found wriggling under the Pacific seabed ... One theory is that the larvae get under the crust with cold deep-sea water where it mixes with the hotter water created by earthquakes ...

A variety of sea life clusters around the vents ... caves connected to the vents teeming with giant tube worms, some reaching up to 1.6 feet (0.5 meter) long, and other animals.

Some are well-worn warnings as familiar as the changing of seasons. Others are slow burns that end with a bang. Still others ...

Deep-sea volcanic ridges ... The arms of an underwater robot helped uncover communities of giant tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath warm vents in the Pacific Ocean.

NEW YORK (AP) — Halloween has plenty of traditions, from candy to jack-o'-lanterns — and the annual spectacle of Heidi Klum's ...