Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Smithsonian scientists provide worldwide access to some of the museum’s most delicate specimens Raven Capone Benko The National Museum of Natural History safeguards ...

Most of us are familiar with the segmented worms we see on sidewalks after a rain, in compost piles, or at the end of a fishhook. But there are other worms out there, and they get a lot bigger than a ...

The lessons invertebrate zoologist Karen Osborn learns from the tiny worms may have robotic implications Megan Kalomiris Cirratulidae polychaete worms are covered in tangled strands of external gills.

A newfound, 500-million-year-old fossilized sea worm has been unearthed in northern Utah. This ancient worm would have glided through the ocean during the Cambrian period (541 million to 485.4 million ...