Unbeknownst to most landlubbers, polychaetes rule the seas. There are at least 10,000 species of these swimming bristly worms, some of which pop with brilliant colors or light up with a bioluminescent ...

It’s a small, fleshy creature, no more than an inch in length, with elongated spines and menacing pharyngeal teeth used to crush food. It lived in muddy shallow waters some hundreds of millions of ...

SEQUIM — Brad Griffith gets down and dirty with earthworms and loves it. “You’re talking about the bottom of the barrel here,” he said with a wry grin, indicating that if you can’t have a sense of ...

The reddish-gray-colored common earthworm, often called a night crawler in the United States, is familiar to anyone with a fishing rod or a garden. They are indigenous to Europe, but are now abundant ...

At first glance, a glacier looks like a rather lifeless thing—a barren chunk of ice. But there’s much more than meets the eye: Glaciers are home to a host of tiny organisms that make up a flourishing ...

Scientists may not yet have the technology to bring back the dead, but one post circulating on social media claims worms frozen for more than a millennium came back to life after a simple thaw.

At least, I've never heard an earthworm grunt. If they did, they might be easier to find when I want to go fishing, but one afternoon in the campground at Ratcliff Lake I saw people clustering around ...