Groundbreaking entomologist and enthusiastic caver Dr Aola Richards left millions of dollars to universities to encourage the ...

In a stuffy San Diego garage plastered with music posters, a band stands on a ragged Persian rug in front of a cell phone stand. The guitarist and lead singer/songwriter, JP Houle, introduces them ...

In the summer of 2022, I was searching for ants to add to my collection during a visit to my aunt’s farm in the Little Karoo region of South Africa. I was near a stream in the foothills of the ...

A new species of velvet worm has been found in the Karoo region of South Africa – a first for this vast, dry landscape in the south-west of the country. The remarkable discovery was made in March 2022 ...

Scientists found the 500-million-year-old fossil of a "penis worm" in the Grand Canyon—and reconstructed how the creature would have used its strange mouth to feed. The newly discovered species of ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has emerged as a key discovery in early animal evolution. Originally described in ...

Following weeks of heavy rainfall, hammerhead worms have been reported more frequently throughout Texas. The invasive species is not a direct threat to humans or pets. The worms don't bite but do ...

After weeks of heavy rain across North Texas, sightings of a toxic invasive worm are on the rise. The hammerhead worm is popping up in counties throughout the Metroplex and experts say it’s a real ...

The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology. Get the Popular ...

Velvet worms like this one “sneeze” out a sticky goo with intriguing properties. The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical ...

Peripatopsis barnardi represents the first ever species from the little Karoo, which indicates that the area was historically more forested than at present. It is one of seven new species from the ...