Bone-eating worms, belonging to the genus Osedax, represent a remarkable example of evolutionary adaptation to ephemeral deep-sea habitats. These specialised annelids colonise the bones of beached ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

WASHINGTON — Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root ...

Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...