When you’re a nerd in science, you have to take the opportunities you see to work in your fannish love. And that’s exactly what a group of biologists did when they discovered a new species of worm.

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal ...

A cave biologist and research assistant with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science recently discovered a new species of worms. When Dave Steinmann first crawled into a cave in Steamboat Springs in ...

Sea sponges are weird all on their own, but their tenants are even weirder. Many sponges are host to a variety of worm species which live inside their digestive canals. The exact nature of these ...

The Great Salt Lake, unsurprisingly renowned for its extremely salty water, is generally considered a desert. In this ...

(CNN) - They're long and skinny. They're boomerang-headed and coated in toxic mucus. And they've been hiding in plain sight in the US for a long time. Invasive hammerhead flatworms have distinctive ...

When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom. Until, that ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale ...

Only two other species of these rare, curious beasts have been discovered to date. This new third species was discovered at Shukunegi Point on Sado Island in Japan, also inhabiting sponges. The ...

Scientists have discovered a worm that managed to stretch its short life expectancy — by tens of thousands of years. A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 ...