Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest ...

For hundreds of years, biologists knew of the giant shipworm only from shell fragments and a handful of dead specimens. Those specimens, despite being preserved in museum jars, had gone to mush. Still ...

The bivalves were about a foot deep on the Washington Avenue beach in Margate. Mussels also washed up in Ventnor. Swimmers had to dodge clam worms on the sand in Atlantic City and Brigantine. The ...