A strange, forgotten worm that perplexed scientists 50 years ago is finally getting a name and the attention it's due. Meet Utahscolex ratcliffei. Scientists came up with the name after investigating ...

Fifty years ago, researchers placed a mystery worm in a 'wastebasket' genus and interest in the lowly critter waned -- until now. When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before.

Bamboo worms (family Maldanidae), whose segmentation resembles bamboo, are found in all marine regions. These worms have a reputation for being difficult to identify. However, two new species were ...

What name would you give to a species of Antarctic, sea-dwelling worm that spends its time 6,561 feet below the water's surface, wriggling in the rotting carcasses of whales? The British public will ...

Diners may be more likely to utter those words today than in decades past, as the abundance of parasitic Anisakis worms infecting fishes around the globe is now 283 times what it was in the 1970s, ...

Jeff Goodhartz is single and has no children. But he wanted to ensure the family name would live on after he's gone. So he paid $5,000 to have a newfound sea worm given the Goodhartz name, ...

LAWRENCE -- When a partial fossil specimen of a primordial marine worm was unearthed in Utah in 1969, scientists had a tough go identifying it. Usually, such worms are recognized and categorized by ...

What name would you give to a species of Antarctic, sea-dwelling worm that spends its time 2,000 metres below the water's surface, wriggling in the rotting carcasses of whales? What name would you ...

LOS ANGELES — Jeff Goodhartz is single and has no children. But he wanted to ensure the family name would live on after he’s gone.So he paid $5,000 to have a newfound sea worm given the Goodhartz name ...