My grandfather always says early bird catches the worm whenever I complain about getting up early.

A team of marine biologists collected tissue samples from a bone-eating snot flower worm attached to the minke whale skeleton.

Scientists studying deep-sea ecosystems were amazed to find bone-eating snot flower worms colonizing the whale skeleton.

While researching marine biodiversity, I was thrilled to photograph a deepwater big-eyed worm eel during a submersible dive off New Zealand.