In short, Anisakis worms hitch a ride on your fillet via the marine food chain. When infected mammals like whales and sea ...

An international team of scientists found fossil evidence of sea monsters, ancient predators that held power, in the waters ...

Rembrandt's 1642 painting 'The Night Watch' has been misnamed. Although it depicts a militia on patrol, the background is clearly not night but daylight. The painting's overall darkness and the bright ...

The number of cases of flesh-eating screwworm in animals has risen by 53% in the last month in Mexico, according to government data. New World Screwworm (NWS), which eats warm-blooded animals alive, ...

A fascinating connection between biology and art history can be found in the deep sea. In the dark, nutrient-poor expanses of the world's oceans, there are places where life flourishes despite the ...

The blue dragons, which pack a ferocious sting, have led to several beach closures. Experts say it’s a worrying sign of the ...

Survival involves safety, shelter, water, and food. In most situations, they must be focused on in that order. Despite food being down the line in terms of needs, it is high on the list when it comes ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, a bright yellow worm thrives where no other animals dare, in toxic hydrothermal vents saturated with arsenic and sulfide. By cleverly turning these poisons into a ...

A Paralvinella hessleri specimen with buccal tentacles and a bright yellow color The fluids that bubble up from underneath the Earth here contain high levels of the chemical compound sulfide and the ...

To blunt the toxic arsenic in the waters where it lives, a deep-sea worm combines it with another chemical to produce a less toxic compound. By Jack Tamisiea Arsenic is a toxic metal, and exposure to ...

Image of the alvinellid worm, Paralvinella hessleri. A P. hessleri specimen with buccal tentacles extroverted, lateral view. Note that the animal has a bright yellow color A deep sea worm that ...

The 500-million-year-old fossil, containing a species named in honor of the krayt dragons in Star Wars, is a much larger ancestor of phallic marine worms that can be found on the seabed today.