In the book, Martin first describes the spymaster Mysaria thusly: "Mysaria was the name she went by, though her rivals and ...

Rapidly change your password, the Microsoft security team urges as Shai-Hulud Dune Worm cloud attacks continue.

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

A biologist with a passion for invertebrates had been caring for an unassuming worm in his lab for decades. Only recently did ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

A terrifying look at the Bobbit worm, a segmented marine predator that burrows into the sand and uses razor-sharp jaws to ...

A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

For over 20 years, the 3-foot-long ribbon worm Baseodiscus the Eldest (B for short) was more a “long-time acquaintance” than ...

A strange, new species of ribbon worm, Pararosa vigarae, stretches its body like an accordion, capable of shrinking to ...

A parasitic brain worm fatal to moose, elk, and caribou has been confirmed in northern Alberta for the first time.

Light-sensitive stem cells let bristleworms grow their eyes for life, shedding new light on how vision evolved.

In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...