If you’re wondering whether you should inspect your fir for a Christmas tree worm this holiday season, you don’t have to worry. During the holiday season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Laurie Reid Dukes, Charlotte's city arborist, spreads sticky insect barrier on tree band meant to catch cankerworms in Elmwood Cemetery on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. If you're new to Charlotte, let's ...

Can a worm help save a coral reef? Yes and that is exactly what kio the Christmastree worm does. Kio is only three inches long and it makes a ridged calcium carbonate tube right into a live coral.

Instead of slithering through soil, the Christmas tree worm inhabits coral reefs and might even help protect them against destruction.

You don't have to wait till December to get your Christmas fix. Because these underwater worms look like exactly like colorful Christmas trees. SEE ALSO: The mantis shrimp is the most beautiful and ...

A video shared in late December 2023 authentically showed a ribbon worm, "spitting a living, tree-like proboscis to hunt it's prey." The earliest instance of the video being shared we found was a ...

The earliest instance of the video being shared we found was a re-post of a TikTok video by @thatcherisdeadding Reddit user from 2021. Therefore, to assess the video's authenticity, we started by ...

Despite their name, Christmas tree worms aren’t going to eat up fir and pine trees often used during the holiday season, scientists say. The creatures live in the ocean. Matt Hardy via Unsplash If you ...

Do you know that many of our coral reefs here in Hawai‘i are just covered in what looks like tiny, two-inch-long Christmas trees that grow on top of the live coral? There are some strange animals that ...