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A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti after the lead Alvin pilot, Bruce Strickrott of WHOI who helped discover it. Its feathery appendages are called parapodia and carry the worm’s gills. CREDIT Ekin Tilic

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New Deep-sea Worm Discovered At Methane Seep Off Of Costa Rica

by Keith CowingMarch 7, 2024March 7, 2024

Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other researchers have discovered a new species of deep-sea worm living near a methane seep some […]

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New Deep-sea Worm Discovered At Methane Seep Off Of Costa Rica

Ocean Planet Expeditions: Alvin Submersible Certified To Return To Service

Martian Dust Storms May Ggenerate Atmospheric Electrical Conditions That Could Impact Mars Missions

Discovery Of An Exterior Third Planet Orbiting β Pictoris

C,N,O,S, And Photochemistry In A Temperate Giant Planet Orbiting A Late M Dwarf

Coupled AtmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI). I. Evolutionary Modelling — Primordial Magma Oceans of Earth and Venus