Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

Earthworms. To many, they are an icky organism that crawls onto our carports after a heavy rain. But these creatures should not be thought of as a nuisance; in fact they should be considered nature’s ...

Do you have worms in your garden? That's great! Does your dog have worms? That's terrible! Garden worms (earthworms) won't hurt your dog but some dogworms (parasites) can make your garden dangerous ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I'm Ashleigh Papp. You might say that Guillermo Ponz is a scientific monster hunter–even though he thinks that term, “monster” never ...

To many, they are an icky organism that crawls onto our carports after a heavy rain. But, these creatures should not be thought of as a nuisance; in fact they should be considered nature’s plough. As ...

ROCK ISLAND -- What do birds, bears, snakes, turtles, foxes, beetles and leeches have in common? They all eat worms. Quad City Botanical Center education coordinator Jessica Armentrout read "Diary of ...