ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Armed with a sophisticated ice borer, professor Daniel Shain went hunting on Byron Glacier for a scientific treasure: the tiny, fragile ice worm. "We know there are 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 ...

The ice worm is one of the largest organisms that spends its entire life in ice and Washington State University scientist Scot Hotalilng is one of the only people on the planet studying it. He is the ...

Ice worms spend most of the day burrowing their way through the cold, dark interior of the glacier, coming to the surface only in the afternoon to feed on algae and bacteria. Scott Hotaling Wander ...