They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...

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When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

The worms that burrowed in these tunnels may have been the ancestors of modern Bobbit worms, Eunice aphtoditois, and is the earliest known fossil of an ambush predator Y-Y. Pan ET AL./Scientific ...

Eyeless roundworms may have hacked other cellular warning systems to give themselves a form of color vision. By Veronique Greenwood In the warm, fetid environs of a compost heap, tiny roundworms feast ...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I'm Ashleigh Papp. You might say that Guillermo Ponz is a scientific monster hunter–even though he thinks that term, “monster” never ...

Scientists have discovered a new genus of glow-in-the-dark worms they call 'demon fire' worms. The worms are part of a family of worms known as bristle worms, and researchers say they resemble the ...

2017 is already off to a weird start in the science world. The Salk Institute learns that roundworms behave just like angsty teens, but they’re doing it without the help of My Chemical Romance. Over ...

When security experts first detected a mass-mailing worm that uses Yahoo's People Search engine to harvest e-mail addresses, they assumed it was a new variant of MyDoom, which a week earlier had ...

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine. It’s evening at the northern tip of the Red Sea, in the Gulf of Aqaba, and Tom Shlesinger readies to take a dive. During the day, the seafloor is ...

Behold, the Arthrobotrys oligospora. It’s a seemingly innocuous fungus that has long fascinated biologists for one of its cute characteristics: doubling as a bloodthirsty, systematic killer of ...