A Bug of the Year campaign has combined passions for invertebrates, bioluminescence, te ao Māori, mātauranga Māori, and ...

Experts from the French National Museum of Natural History have found evidence that invasive flatworms are spreading through Europe by attaching themselves to unsuspecting pets.

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At the bottom of the ocean, where metal-rich hydrothermal vents exhale poison, a bright yellow worm has mastered an impossible art: turning lethal elements into armor. Meet Paralvinella hessleri, the ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. These worms have an unusual survival trick that lets them withstand the high levels of toxic ...

In the deep, dark Pacific, hydrothermal vents spew boiling-hot water and poisonous substances into the ocean. Hardly anything can survive in such a harsh environment. Yet somehow, one animal thrives.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a ...

A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth century.