Segmentation, the replication of anatomical structures throughout the body, is found in many animal species. It’s also a huge reason why all those species succeeded, and it comes from a single common ...

Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown that the marine animals known as peanut worms are not a separate phylum, but are definitely part of the family of annelids, also known as segmented ...

The eerie painting depicts an image few of us would want to see in the mirror, let alone casting a shadow across our own field of vision: a pale, segmented worm slithering across an unblinking eyeball ...

A team of biologists report in this week's Nature the genome sequences of three organisms that represent more than one-quarter of marine species, including clams, octopuses and the segmented worms, ...

Sea sponges are weird all on their own, but their tenants are even weirder. Many sponges are host to a variety of worm species which live inside their digestive canals. The exact nature of these ...

Scientists say Tully Monster was not a segmented worm or a free-swimming slug, as once hypothesized, but rather a type of jawless fish called a lamprey Primer is Mint's signature mode of explaining a ...

Parasites do very well for themselves, which is why they are so common in the animal kingdom. Geoffrey Read, CC BY If you’re an oyster lover, seeing a shaggy worm slither across your appetizer is ...

This news release is available in German. If your favourite pub moves - would you move too or look for another pub? For bacteria living in symbiosis with marine worms it all depends on whether they ...

Tiny, feisty worms that live off the coast of Japan fight by headbutting each other — and they aren't quiet about it. During these feuds, the worms emit one of the loudest sounds in the ocean, ...

The lessons invertebrate zoologist Karen Osborn learns from the tiny worms may have robotic implications Megan Kalomiris Cirratulidae polychaete worms are covered in tangled strands of external gills.