Why it is awesome: With its scientific name referencing Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, the sand striker is a stunning, glittering marine worm — and a terrifying ambush predator. It ...

Sand strikers, also known as bobbit worms, are primitive-looking creatures that lack eyes, or even a brain. Despite this, they are savage predators who shoot out grapple-like hooks to reel in passing ...

Bobbit worms hide beneath the sand with only their sensory feelers exposed, waiting for movement above. When a fish passes too close, they erupt upward and clamp down with powerful jaws. Their bodies ...

'A combination of amazement and horror': Hitchhiker fish hide in manta ray buttholes 'Kraken' octopus that lived at the time of the dinosaurs was a 62-foot-long apex predator of the ocean Deadly, ...