Tequila connoisseurs will know every myth and fun fact about the iconic Mexican alcohol, one of the most infamous being the worm. Rumored to be a hallucinogenic, the worm at the bottom of the bottle ...

It’s a small, fleshy creature, no more than an inch in length, with elongated spines and menacing pharyngeal teeth used to crush food. It lived in muddy shallow waters some hundreds of millions of ...

At first glance, a glacier looks like a rather lifeless thing—a barren chunk of ice. But there’s much more than meets the eye: Glaciers are home to a host of tiny organisms that make up a flourishing ...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I'm Ashleigh Papp. You might say that Guillermo Ponz is a scientific monster hunter–even though he thinks that term, “monster” never ...

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