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 ...

One of the earliest rulers of this ancient animal kingdom – a giant carnivorous worm – has now been found in fossil form. More than 518 million years ago, the roughly 30-centimeter-long ...

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 ...

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...