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.

Texas is home to some of the creepiest, crawliest, and otherwise oddest animals on the planet. We introduce you to them in What in Tarnation?!, an occasional series. If most of us were to stumble upon ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A bearded fireworm caught off the coast of Port Isabel last week is getting lots of attention online and surprising beachgoers. "I've never seen anything like that," said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...