Segmentation, the replication of anatomical structures throughout the body, is found in many animal species. It’s also a huge reason why all those species succeeded, and it comes from a single common ...

Recent molecular phylogenetic analysis has shown that the marine animals known as peanut worms are not a separate phylum, but are definitely part of the family of annelids, also known as segmented ...

The Cambrian is rightly famous for being the period when animal life first exploded into a dizzying diversity of forms, including some body plans that remain with us today. But the first animals in ...

A team of biologists report in this week's Nature the genome sequences of three organisms that represent more than one-quarter of marine species, including clams, octopuses and the segmented worms, ...

The eerie painting depicts an image few of us would want to see in the mirror, let alone casting a shadow across our own field of vision: a pale, segmented worm slithering across an unblinking eyeball ...

Scientists say Tully Monster was not a segmented worm or a free-swimming slug, as once hypothesized, but rather a type of jawless fish called a lamprey Primer is Mint's signature mode of explaining a ...

Preying mantises are vulnerable to horsehair worm parasites, which depend on other animals for their lifecycle needs.

Biology professor Kevin Peterson, working with researchers from several institutions, has developed a breakthrough technique to study the evolutionary relationships between species. His research, ...

This news release is available in German. If your favourite pub moves - would you move too or look for another pub? For bacteria living in symbiosis with marine worms it all depends on whether they ...