The marine creature was recognized as a new species in 2020 by scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

In Spanish waters, a marine worm astonishes with its ability to contract with the precision of an accordion. Its body folds into perfect rings, like the bellows of the musical instrument. The ...

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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 ...

Marine worm with giant eyes 20 times size of its head leaves scientists perplexed. If humans had eyes proportionally as big they would add an extra 100 kg to our heads, researchers say .

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.

Branching marine worms are extremely rare: bizarre creatures with one head but a body that branches repeatedly into multiple posterior ends. Only three such species are known, and one of these ...

A tiny nocturnal worm native to the Mediterranean Sea has eyes as sharp as mammals, according to neuro and marine biologist Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Biology.

Scientists say a tiny, nocturnal worm that lives in the Mediterranean Sea has eyes so large that if a human had them, they “would need a big sturdy wheelbarrow and brawny arms to lug around the ...

Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.