Kakui, who was not involved in the new research, was the lead author for a study that identified the first known examples of marine horsehair worm juveniles in deep-sea crustaceans called isopods.

The teenager on trial for writing the Sasser computer worm which wreaked havoc in a million ... as a "computer freak", was identified as the author after Microsoft offered a reward of $250,000 ...

In a career first, LaVine had the honor of naming the fossil worm as the person who discovered it and as a co-author of the paper focused on it, according to the University of Kansas.