Velvet worms are among the most unusual predators found in humid forests and caves. These soft-bodied invertebrates hunt by ejecting twin streams of adhesive slime that rapidly harden around their ...

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. The aptly named invertebrate is ...

An ancient, armored worm may be the key to unraveling the evolutionary history of a diverse collection of marine invertebrates. Discovered in China, a roughly 520-million-year-old fossil of the newly ...

Get a close look at this aptly named invertebrate that was found in the Atlantic. Sci NC Producer Rossie Izlar heads to the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh for a closer look at the spoonworm.

Ko Mochizuki of the University of Tokyo has discovered that Vincetoxicum nakaianum (a dogbane species native to Japan described for the first time by Mochizuki and his collaborators only a year ago) ...