Despite their blubbery bodies, whales eventually sink to the bottom in what are called “whale falls,” becoming an essential ...

Austrian scientists uncovered a hidden undersea world with gigantic ‘worms’ lurking beneath the Earth’s crust.

Osedax worms are called a “bone-eating” species ... Rio Grande Rise and northwards to Abrolhos Bank suggest that the deep-sea oceans in the southern hemisphere may provide a rich supply ...

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.