They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive cells, partnered with a dark pigment. These give their owners a one-pixel sense ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 years, none appeared — an unsettling result tied to low-oxygen waters in the ...

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When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

A ribbon worm kept in a laboratory aquarium for decades has turned out to be the oldest known example of its kind. Its age, once overlooked, is now reshaping what scientists know about the lifespan of ...

The worms that burrowed in these tunnels may have been the ancestors of modern Bobbit worms, Eunice aphtoditois, and is the earliest known fossil of an ambush predator Y-Y. Pan ET AL./Scientific ...

Scientists have discovered a new genus of glow-in-the-dark worms they call 'demon fire' worms. The worms are part of a family of worms known as bristle worms, and researchers say they resemble the ...

Easton R. White is an assistant professor of biology at the University of New Hampshire who studies biodiversity and ecological data science. Taylor Swift may not have meant it to, but her recent hit ...

Blackworm blobs don't need a leader to get to where they're going. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It wriggles. It squirms. It ...