The fish in Alfonso Barone's net are hauled aboard off Sicily half- eaten, ravaged by bearded fireworms, a voracious predator flourishing in the increasingly warm Mediterranean sea. The centipede-like ...

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 — 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 Bearded Fireworm is a creature that grows to over a foot long and lives among coral, rock and sand at tropical beaches and on coral reefs. It can be found in the shallows or as deep as 120 feet.

Remember this the next time you go swimming. A woman in Texas made a bizarre catch while pier fishing in Port Isabel. Fortunately, she didn’t touch the creature as doing so could have left her in pain ...

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 ...

Fireworms are native to the Mediterranean, but they used to be fewer in number and only spotted off Sicily in summer - Copyright AFP Filippo MONTEFORTE Fireworms are ...