Last week, I had one of those inner sanctum Smithsonian experiences. Cheryl Bright, manager of the National Invertebrate Collection, gave me and a few other journalists a behind-the-scenes tour of Pod ...

Scientists hiking a forest trail in Chile found a “giant” flatworm eating an invasive species in a first-of-its-kind sighting, a study said. Screengrab from Walk the South’s YouTube video While ...

MOSCOW, IdahoMOSCOW, Idaho — The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle – its very name ...

“They were passing out preserved giant tube-worm tubes,” Alysia Cox said. The evidence was right there on the desk in her Montana Tech office: two Ziploc bags fitted over a long, white, dried-out tube ...

Lamellibrachia barhami, a species of tubeworm that lives at both hydrothermal vents and methane seeps. This ‘foundation’ species forms giant bushes and massive meadows at Jaco Scar on the Costa Rica ...