Recently unearthed fossils from the Cambrian period shed light on a key stage of evolution, when life became much more ...

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it.

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CT scans of Cretaceous fossils reveal seven ancient worm species that bored into marine bones and shaped deep-sea ecosystems.

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A warning to readers who don’t have a fear of the deep ocean: this story might soon change that. Back in 2019, a group of researchers who wanted to stir excitement down in the murky recesses of the ...

UAE authority on July 8 confirmed that the presence of sea worms at Al Bateen Beach in Abu Dhabi is a natural and harmless phenomenon. This clarification comes after a series of viral videos ...

The South China Sea polychaete belongs to a genus of “rarely encountered” marine worms and is the first species of its genus to be found in the South China Sea, the study said.