Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The newly discovered species of priapulid, Kraytdraco spectatus, got its name from a Star Wars monster. Illustration by Rhydian ...

Deep-sea worms feast on the teeth of dead sharks that fall to the seafloor. These worms were previously known to eat whale bones and the remains of bony fish, but when those are scarce, shark teeth ...

Researchers in Tunisia found the largest “worm lizard” that has ever lived with a feeding strategy that has remained consistent for millions of years. The recently identified Terastiodontosaurus ...

For decades, one of the strangest animals in the fossil record was drawn literally upside down and back to front. The creature is called Hallucigenia, a spiky worm from the Cambrian seas about 508 ...