Sep 30, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of biologists has isolated eight species of nematodes from the arsenic-rich sediments of Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierras of California....

Aug 19, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of biologists has discovered and described a new species of medicinal leech living in the freshwater wetlands of the eastern United...

May 31, 2019 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found 8,000-year-old eggs of the whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) in coprolites (fossilized feces) from Çatalhöyük,...

May 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Jean-Lou Justine of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, has identified at least five species...

Mar 27, 2018 by News Staff

The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) — the longest animal on Earth — produces a neurotoxin that can kill both crabs and cockroaches, a team...

Jan 29, 2018 by News Staff

A new species of bristle worm that lived about 508 million years ago (Cambrian period) has been identified from fossils found in Marble Canyon and Burgess...

May 23, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of taxonomists led by experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the...

Apr 18, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of marine biologists, led by researchers at Northeastern University and the University of Utah, is the first to investigate a never...

Feb 23, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A prehistoric monster worm that terrorized the Devonian seas some 400 million years ago has been identified by an international team of paleontologists...

Dec 14, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists has discovered several early Cambrian (535 million years old) fossils of kinorhynch worms, including the new species Eokinorhynchus...

Jun 18, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists, led by Dr Jon Pierce-Shimomura of the University of Texas at Austin, has identified a magnetosensitive neuron in the brain of Caenorhabditis...

Apr 16, 2015 by News Staff

In a new paper in the journal Biology Letters, scientists reported fossil traces of Osedax – a genus of bone-devouring worms that both eat and inhabit...

Jul 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Biologists have described a tiny new species of nematode from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan, and named it after the German theoretical physicist...

Jun 28, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Japanese biologists have described a new species of spoon worm from the sandy tidal flat Hachi-no-higata of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan. Spoon worm Arhynchite...

Jul 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

California University scientists have discovered that tiny ‘bone-devouring worms’, known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other...