A remarkable yellow worm, Paralvinella hessleri, thrives near boiling, toxic hydrothermal vents in the Pacific. This deep-sea ...
Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors of these bone-burrowers back through 100 million years of evolution. Deep ...
Palolo Rising! Islanders around the Moana are beginning the chase for the elusive palolo worm - here are the predicted best ...
Popcorn-like parasites, ghostly crustaceans, and creepy worms are among the 14 new species that have recently been found in ...
They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out. A laboratory image of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, aka the "pigbutt worm," an ...