Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An underwater worm with purple and blue scales An underwater worm with purple and blue scales A newfound, 500-million-year-old ...

Diving off the coast of Japan, scuba divers spotted an underwater light show. The small blue-purple lights seemed to pulse through the surrounding dark water. When scientists took a closer look at the ...

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her ...

It’s time for the blobfish to move over. There’s another ugly sea creature in town (or the reefs, rather), and it’s essentially nightmare fuel. This is what Eulagisca gigantea, or the Antarctic scale ...

Scientists identified 3 new species of bioluminescent Polycirrus worms off the coast of Japan. Videos show the animals’ blue-purple glow. Photo from Jimi N et al. Diving off the coast of Japan, scuba ...