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 ...

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

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 ...

Millions of years of pressure make the remains of ancient species turn from soft bone ... Amphisbaenians are a group of worm-like reptiles, typically limbless, that are long and thin like a ...

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 ...

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 ...