STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLO. - A cave biologist and research assistant with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science recently discovered a new species of worms. When Dave Steinmann first crawled into a ...

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The three science students from Georgia Tech arrive in brand-new Dickies coveralls, ready to enter the bowels of the Earth. "Sulphur Cave is a really dangerous place," says David Steinmann, a veteran ...

Sulfuric acid drips from the ceiling of a cave in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and the air is so full of toxic fumes, people are typically forbidden to go inside. Aaron Scott, the co-host of NPR's ...

When David Steinmann first wriggled into Sulphur Cave near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 2008 he was surprised to find knots of blood-red worms. Though finding worms in most caves isn’t unusual, ...

It’s so bizarre, it’s almost hard to believe: In downtown Steamboat Springs in western Colorado, on a local ski hill, there’s a small cave that’s become famous among some scientists. The red worms ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dave Steinmann wasn’t the only thing crawling on his belly in a toxic cave near Steamboat Springs over the last decade. Cave worms — technically known as ...

New Zealand's 30-million-year-old limestone caves, with their walls lined with mesmerising bioluminescent glow worms, are a photographer's dream. This is far from the first time Arachnocampa luminosa ...

Going about our daily lives, many of us tend not to give worms any thought. They’re wiggly, strange, typically underground and only likely make in-person appearances when we’re gardening or after a ...

In the toxic waters of Sulphur Cave in Steamboat Springs, Colo. live blood-red worm blobs that have attracted international scientific interest. We don special breathing gear and go into the cave with ...