Sometime in the late 1990s, an adult ribbon worm was scooped up from the murk in the waters off the San Juan Islands, in the ...

They were once the rocky abode of a burrowing worm, and are normally found at sea not on the beach ...

Marylanders and visitors love the blue crab as a seafood delicacy, but they chose it as the state crustacean for more than ...

A transformation in the seagrass meadows hidden under the surface of the Chesapeake Bay may have huge implications for fish ...

Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly overturning what I thought I knew about where life can thrive. Lying over 11,940 ...

Nearly 3.7 kilometers beneath the Greenland Sea, scientists have stumbled on a hidden landscape of icy methane and dense animal life that should not, by conventional wisdom, be there. The deepest gas ...

SLAUGHTERED: These shells are what are left of the giant clams that were “slaughtered” from the Giant Clam Village off the coast of Cadiz City in Negros Occidental, a protected seascape in the city.

Razor clams are tasty, and gathering them involves an outing on the beach. Each clammer must dig his own clams and keep them in a separate container. (Terry Otto for The Columbian) The Washington ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- We're heading to a South Philly neighborhood tavern that first opened in 1936, and was just saved from closing its doors. At Bomb Bomb Bar and Grill, it's like an Italian Seven ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Anglerfish are some of the most bizarre and fearsome ...

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4.3 inch) living, writhing round worm from a woman’s left eyelid. According ...