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 ...

(NEXSTAR) — A massive worm’s lair has been discovered underground in Taiwan. The 20-million-year-old burrow was recently discovered by scientists, who published their findings Thursday in the journal ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...