CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, there's another creepy crawly, slimy, slippery creature to warn you about that can make your beach trip miserable.

A muscly fossil fireworm has been named Rollinschaeta myoplena in honor of punk musician and spoken word artist, Henry Rollins. The fossil worm is a polychaete annelid, a marine relative of earthworms ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Jace Tunnell has done it again. If his name sounds familiar it's because the director of community engagement at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at ...

Mark Vins takes on the "scorching" sting of the Bearded Fireworm, demonstrating how its venom-filled bristles break off into the skin to cause a painful, burning sensation.

The fish had been biting for this angler on a beautiful day in Texas when suddenly they stopped. That’s when Alyssa Ramirez reeled in her fishing line from a pier in Port Isabel, thinking perhaps her ...

Fireworms are native to the Mediterranean, but they used to be fewer in number and only spotted off Sicily in summer - Copyright AFP Filippo MONTEFORTE Fireworms are ...

A fisherman in West Palm Beach reeled in a venomous surprise.On the end of the hook was a fireworm, a creature that somewhat resembles a large centipede and is armed with thousands of stinging ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Jace Tunnell has done it again. If his name sounds familiar it's because the director of community engagement at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at ...

A fisherman pulls a bearded fireworm from his net near the Sicilian village of Marzamemi on July 25, 2024. Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP. As climate change causes rising temperatures across the ...

A new species of fireworm has been discovered on an outlying islet in Hong Kong by a team of biologists, becoming the 28th species of the creature found across the world. “More work should be done in ...

A muscly fossil fireworm, discovered by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum, has been named Rollinschaeta myoplena in honour of punk musician and spoken word ...