Scientists at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia have made an alarming discovery: zombie worms are missing from B.C.’s ocean floor. These missing worms spell trouble, but not for ...

Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie worms, they can sustain an entire ecosystem for decades. But in recent ...

Russian researchers have coaxed microscopic animals back to life after they spent roughly 24,000 years locked in Siberian ice, turning a patch of permafrost into a real-world time capsule. The revived ...