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How do bone-eating worms reproduce? A new study by Norio Miyamoto and colleagues from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology sheds light on this question through a detailed ...

“Gross Science” is a new science show from PBS Digital Studios that’s all about what show host Anna Rothschild calls science’s “slimy, smelly, creepy underbelly.” In this episode, Rothschild describes ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean’s most bizzare animals: a branching marine worm named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi that lives inside sea sponges and reproduces in a ...

The world of small, slender roundworms is the embodiment of “this is the future that liberals want” — as prophesied by someone like Jordan Peterson. It’s not that the species Mesorhabditis belari ...

"This worm can serve as a sort of living history." Tiny worms could be crucial ally in efforts to boost vital species in US waterway: 'Useful, easily implemented tool' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Some segmented sea worms like the syllid worm go through a reproductive process called stolonization. The stolon is the worm’s posterior organ and it is full of eggs or sperm depending on the worm’s ...