AN EERIE-LOOKING critter with glowing spikes and black bristles has been spotted on a UK beach, leaving locals “stunned”. The alien-like animal was spotted on a rock by a couple out for a walk ...

For a bountiful cucumber harvest, avoid planting them near potatoes, melons, or fennel, as they compete for resources or ...

A black and white cat is visibly startled after noticing a cucumber placed behind it on the kitchen floor. The photo captures the cat’s arched back and cautious stance, highlighting a typical feline ...

A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth century.

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Life can be pretty difficult in the ocean’s hydrothermal vents. It ...

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 ...

A deep sea worm that inhabits hydrothermal vents survives the high levels of toxic arsenic and sulfide in its environment by combining them in its cells to form a less hazardous mineral. Chaolun Li of ...

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 ...

For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn't take long for doctors to unearth the cause.

A genome sequence and single-cell atlas of a marine worm species point towards bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss as the drivers of lineage-specific body traits. Usually about one ...

Scientists researching the Grand Canyon recently found fossils of a never-before-seen species of the so-called penis worm, an animal which, as discerning readers may have guessed, bears a remarkable ...