That strange “worm” at the bottom of some mezcal bottles has finally been identified, and the answer overturns decades of ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg relocated to Florida after a California bill proposing a billionaire tax continues to gain ...

A Japanese expedition has found several unknown creatures living inside 'glass sponges' in the Pacific Ocean, including glow ...

The fourth of five ocean zones – the abyssopelagic zone or the abyss – stretches from 4,000 to 6,000 metres deep ...

The famous mezcal “worm” has long puzzled scientists, but DNA testing has finally cracked the case. Researchers found that ...

Spring rains are pulling something unsettling to the surface in Texas gardens. Hammerhead worms, a toxic and invasive flatworm species, are beginning to pop up across the state after recent wet ...

I must look like a tiny, squirmy silverfish or an oversized white worm or maggot… “Look, there on the floor, you guys, it’s my boyfriend. I know it looks like a strange insect but it’s him.” [a friend ...

Florida metal band Worm released their attention-grabbing new album Necropalace in February, and they’ve announced a US tour supporting it. The shows run through June, beginning in Dallas on June 2 ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a.k.a. the rat lungworm, is now ...

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch) living, writhing round worm from a woman’s left eyelid. According ...

Researchers wanted to quantify how much charge a jumping parasitic roundworm needed to latch on to its fruit fly host.Credit...By Victor M. Ortega-Jimenez Supported by By Alexa Robles-Gil For small ...

A parasitic worm uses static electricity to launch itself onto flying insects, a mechanism uncovered by physicists and biologists at Emory and Berkeley. By generating opposite charges, the worm and ...