The "ice cream cones" aren't the edible kind. They're tubes of worms washing up on the Texas coast.

The tube and worm is a lure/bait combination used primarily on the eastern seaboard, where kayak anglers find it's extraordinarily effective for striped bass. The tube is actually surgical tubing cut ...

Just past high noon one cool day last week, a small aluminum boat motors slowly out of the Saugatuck River in Westport. Aboard the boat, affectionately dubbed "The Great White," is the boat's owner, ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

EuroWorm is building an open genomic inventory of European marine annelids to combat biodiversity loss and accelerate species discovery.

Tube worms are ancient creatures that can be found near hydrothermal vents on the seafloor. They don't mind the pressure or lack of sunlight, and they have no mouth or digestive tract. Bacteria that ...

Predators that tread on a colony of parchment tube worms may find themselves slimed. When threatened, these ocean creatures exude a sticky mucus that can glow blue for days (SN: 7/28/14). Making and ...

Oasisia tube worm at the top of the Matterhorn chimney. The white area is where tube worms are covered by bacterial mat in the area of most intense fluid flow from the top of the chimney. Disclaimer: ...