We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

Off the volcanic ridges of the Eastern Pacific, deep beneath the surface where sunlight never reaches, a team of researchers has uncovered something extraordinary: a secret network of underwater caves ...

UNDATED (CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Worms today might not be that scary, but a couple million years ago, they were a tough predator. Thankfully, those worms are long gone and don't exist today. According ...

(CNN) — Long before the first sharks appeared, large predator worms were the “terror beasts” of the seas more than 500 million years ago, according to new ...

The discovery of fossils within the depths of the waters highlighted some of the unknown species that colonized the region. It was the case with the new fossil named ...

Fossils of a new group of animal predators have been located in the Early Cambrian Sirius Passet fossil locality in North Greenland. These large worms may be some of the earliest carnivorous animals ...

In the depths of the ocean, life can extend far beyond its usual limits. Take the tube worm Escarpia laminata: living in an environment with a year-round abundance of food and no predators, ...

Methane-consuming serpulid worms on the seafloor off the coast of Costa Rica. Credit: Alvin, WHOI About 1,800 meters below the ocean surface off the western coast of Costa Rica, methane seeps dot the ...