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 ...

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They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...

Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic “zombie worms” that had been locked in Arctic ice for roughly 24,000 years ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 ...

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 ...

A team of mathematicians and engineers is unraveling the wriggly mystery of blackworms; specifically, the researchers are trying to understand how the worms are able to disentangle even quicker than ...

A team of researchers at University of Colorado Boulder are looking into ways to help treat people with Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. They’re turning to tiny collaborators, C.

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 ...

It’s one of the most well-known side effects of cannabis: the munchies. That insatiable hunger for fatty, sugary, calorically dense foods sneaks up on many people when they’re high. But it turns out ...