An enormous black worm that lives in the mud of the sea floor and survives on the remnants of noxious gases digested by bacteria has been unveiled by scientists for the first time. The slimy giant ...

The giant shipworm, (Kuphus polythalamia), is actually not a worm at all, but a member of the mollusk family. We have known they existed because when they die, they leave their huge, tusk-like shells ...

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 slimy giant shipworm can grow up to 155 centimetres (five feet) in length, despite living a sedentary life in ocean sediment. The slimy giant shipworm can grow up to 155 centimetres (five feet) in ...