IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Dr. Meredith L. Jones, invertebrate ...

In the depths of the ocean, life can extend far beyond its usual limits. Take the tube worm Escarpia laminata: living in an environment with a year-round abundance of food and no predators, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves beneath the seafloor, ...

The giant tube worm is a staple of the odd world that develops around undersea volcanic vents. Ultimately, life at the vents all depends on the ability of bacteria to convert chemical energy produced ...

“They were passing out preserved giant tube-worm tubes,” Alysia Cox said. The evidence was right there on the desk in her Montana Tech office: two Ziploc bags fitted over a long, white, dried-out tube ...

The giant Palouse earthworm has taken on mythic qualities in this vast agricultural region that stretches from eastern Washington into the Idaho panhandle — its very name evoking the fictional ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — A massive worm’s lair has been ...