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Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker through a few breeding seasons and vanish. Then a single lab animal, known ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Photo courtesy of Svetlana Maslakova (Florida Museum of Natural History) ...

Maddie Frey was still in the early days of her fellowship at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve when she grabbed a bucket and trowel and headed out to the shoreline behind the university’s marine lab ...

At their longest, ribbon worms can grow up to 180 feet, or the equivalent of two blue whales or 720 gummy worms. Turns out, these lanky crawlers also have lengthy lifespans. For over 20 years, the ...

Are you ready for the “ribbon worm”? That white “goo” is actually the worm’s nose, they use it to penetrate their prey and then inject venom into them. They’re mostly deep in the ocean but can also be ...

Associate professor of biology Jon Allen's ribbon worm has set a record at more than 27 years old. When Jon Allen, an associate professor of marine biology, showed Baseodiscus (or B, as it is called ...

The phylum includes ~1300 described species, but the actual diversity is likely at least 10 times that number, judging from the rate at which we discover undescribed species. Nemerteans are ubiquitous ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale ...