The fly larvae, which can burrow into living flesh, pose a severe threat to livestock, wildlife, pets, and in rare cases, humans. Once eggs are laid in an open wound, the larvae hatch and feed on ...

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine ...

After weeks of heavy rain across North Texas, sightings of a toxic invasive worm are on the rise. The hammerhead worm is popping up in counties throughout the Metroplex and experts say it’s a real ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

The Santa Ana winds were already blowing hard when I ran the first worm simulation. I’m no hacker, but it was easy enough: Open a Terminal shell, paste some commands from GitHub, watch characters ...

They're tiny, blobby, butt-shaped, and glow in the dark. What the heck are they? Scientists are still figuring them out. A laboratory image of Chaetopterus pugaporcinus, aka the "pigbutt worm," an ...

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Paleontologists have revealed a giant new species of prehistoric "worm lizard" with a powerful bite that is the largest of its kind found to date. The newly identified creature, named ...

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A new self-spreading worm named 'CMoon,' capable of stealing account credentials and other data, has been distributed in Russia since early July 2024 via a compromised gas supply company website.

There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but likely ...