An ancient worm unearthed in Herefordshire was a carnivorous predator that shoved its throat out to catch and eat prey, according to scientists. The creature, named Radnorscolex latus, was found ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists thawed out a 46,000-year-old worm dating back to the Ice Age and brought it back to life, and then it started having babies. More from News Scientists ...

Researchers found the right side of the 50-million-year-old amphisbaenian’s upper jaw and the left side of its lower jaw, ...

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...

Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life. Researchers at Durham University, UK ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of a new group of extinct predators - which have been nicknamed 'terror beasts' worms. Fossil remains of these ancient creatures ...

This ancient process, using rare dye-producing insects, made crimson a prestigious and valuable colour. The “scarlet worm” is mentioned 25 times in the Bible, often alongside other prised ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom searched burial sites for evidence of parasitic intestinal worm infestations to get clues about past sanitation practices and as a potential means of combatting ...

According to their research, the ancient marine worms would lay waiting under the sand for unsuspecting prey; then when fish passed by, the worms would lunge out of their burrows, snag the ...