Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes are some of the most common animals on the ocean floor, but how these species ...

Researchers discovered two new marine worms off West Bengal. These resilient species thrive in harsh coastal habitats and may ...

A tiny nocturnal worm native to the Mediterranean Sea has eyes as sharp as mammals, according to neuro and marine biologist Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Biology. The ...

The gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis under the microscope. It is about two centimeters long and only 0.5 milimeters wide, and lives in between the sand grains (shown on photo) next to seagrass ...

(TMX) – Scientists say a tiny, nocturnal worm that lives in the Mediterranean Sea has eyes so large that if a human had them, they “would need a big sturdy wheelbarrow and brawny arms to lug around ...

Preventing global ecosystem collapse requires the 1 specific chemical process performed by marine bacteria. Over 20,000 species of marine worms fail to achieve true decomposition without external ...

For the first time, scientists have decoded the molecular structure of a protein that helps to sync a biological clock to the phases of the moon. On a summer night in the Bay of Naples, hordes of ...

ZSI researchers and international experts have discovered two new marine worm species in West Bengal's Digha and Bankiput ...

Study describes marine worms that can synthesize phytosterols de novo, and shows that many other animals have the genes to make these plant sterols Cholesterol and phytosterol are sterols, fatty ...