The rosy-colored, segmented worms appeared to swim through water like a "living magic carpet," scientists say ... a new species of rosy-colored deep-sea worm 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the ...

“They swim slowly, but when he really wanted to move, he started to undulate almost like a living magic carpet ... only animal that bears the submersible pilot’s name. A deep-sea dwelling ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal ... magic carpet”. The deep-sea worm ...

A live male specimen of the new species of deep-sea worm, named Pectinereis strickrotti. Its feathery appendages are called parapodia and carry the worm’s gills.