When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

Last spring a buddy went kayak fishing at Black Bass Lake, a picturesque little reservoir in the heart of Eureka Springs.

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate. Most people will ...

One of the world's second-largest species of fish was spotted off the coast of P.E.I. by a group of people returning from a ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

With so many different species of worms out there, it isn’t too common to find a new one, but that is exactly what happened recently. Dr. Aida Verdes of the National Museum of Natural Sciences found a ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced ...

Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old roundworm, *Panagrolaimus kolymaensis*, discovered in Siberian permafrost. Radiocarbon dating confirms its a ...

"The discovery was made in a West African parasite population during a study led by Dr. Abhinaya Venkatesan, a researcher at ...