Dipon Ghosh, the corresponding author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at MIT, tells Inverse these findings suggests the "worms were sensitive to the color of light in their environment." ...

A marine worm found off an Italian party island has grown enormous eyes that weigh about 20 times more than the rest of its head. The eyes of the nocturnal Vanadis bristle worm are so large that ...

patternless gray coloring and, perhaps most notably, its oddball noggin. The critter’s head was described as having “large,” “backward curved” teeth and small eyes with a blunt snout ...

Although they range in color from green to almost black, they always have a light strip along the length of its body, with a whitish inverted “Y” on the top of the worm's black head.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

"We were surprised to find that the head of the worm, which was previously thought to house a sex-specific control system, didn't show the dramatic differences we expected between males and ...