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

Threadlike worms living in the guts of certain insects make their hosts jump into water and drown. What scientists knew about these parasites resembling strands of spaghetti was already pretty bizarre ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for creatures great and small.

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker through a few breeding seasons and vanish. Then a single lab animal, known ...

(CNN) — Long before the first sharks appeared, large predator worms were the “terror beasts” of the seas more than 500 million years ago, according to new ...

One day half a billion years ago, when Earth was primarily populated by a menagerie of undersea blobs, a spiky little millipede took a stroll along the muddy ocean floor — and died. What do we know ...

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been found to slow aging in worms – an effect that, if it translates to humans, could ...

An often deadly parasite to some types of animals has been found for the first time in the province, according to a First ...

In the 1980s, during a routine necropsy on a female squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus), we found large numbers of long, slender worms in the animal's abdominal cavity. The monkey belonged to a colony ...