On the ocean floor, mouthless worms are quietly dismantling whale skeletons using acid-secreting roots and an unlikely ...

Situated near Pirazman village of Meshkin Shahr, northwestern Ardebil province, Shahr-e Yeri is one of the earliest settlements in the country. The site embraces an Iron-Age fortress, three ...

Over the past couple of years, the site underwent extensive restoration work to help safeguard its Iron-Age fortress, three prehistorical temples, and tens of stones, which bear bizarre-shaped ...

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Jabba the Hutt—the iconic slug-like mobster from the Star Wars franchise—finally has a real world namesake befitting his ugliness. Osedax jabba is one of 14 newly-named zombie worms, tiny, mouthless, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In January 1931, Julia Wallace was bludgeoned to death at her home in the respectable Liverpool suburb of ...