Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world's oldest ribbon worm on record. The adopted invertebrate is fondly called Baseodiscus the Eldest, and he is at least 26 years old, probably around ...

The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

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

Researchers in Tunisia found the largest “worm lizard” that has ever lived with a feeding strategy that has remained consistent for millions of years. The recently identified Terastiodontosaurus ...

Earth is full of giants, but “longest” doesn’t always mean “heaviest” or “biggest-looking.” Some of the longest animals might be as small as worms or jellyfish. Be it a thin ribbon like an animal ...

Researchers examined fossils of the predatory worm and found a new species that persisted for 25 million years after it was believed to have become extinct. By Jack Tamisiea With a head covered in ...

Anna Phillips is surrounded by worms. Millions of worms. They're all stored in a hodgepodge of glass bottles, lined up on rolling, floor-to-ceiling shelves similar to the stacks at a major library or ...