Pyrosome is written in English as 'Pyrosome', which means 'body of fire (pyro) (soma)' in Greek, and as the name suggests, Giant Pyrosome shining at the bottom of the sea is confirmed in the picture ...

So on June 7th I was all, ‘Facebook, what’s happening today?’ and as I’m scrolling through my feed I see this picture–posted by a scuba diver from a small group of islands in the middle of the ...

Large portions of the internet think the narwhal is the unicorn of the sea. Large portions of the internet are wrong. That title clearly belongs to the pyrosome, pictured here. As is often the case ...

Divers off the coast of New Zealand came face to face with a giant sea worm that was almost 30-foot long. The creature is called a pyrosome, and while it might look intimidating, it's actually ...

When videographer Steve Hathaway was filming a tourism promo on October 25 on an island off the coast of New Zealand, his friend Andrew Buttle called him over to see something weird. “You’ve got to be ...

Nope, the strange underwater thing in the image below isn't an inflatable tube man swallowed by the ocean. It is a pyrosome. Pyrosomes are so rare that, for most underwater divers, they may as well be ...

Screen cap from one of the only pyrosome videos out there (see the end of this post). I was living in Africa the first time I saw a pyrosome, and I nearly cried. I was doing research on plankton, ...