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Male stolen (right hand side): one of the independent reproductive units – growing at the tip of a branch of the worm’s body. It has sprouted eyes and will go swimming free to find a stolon of the ...

We’ve all lifted a rock or flowerpot and found a long, slimy worm underneath. But have you ever done so and found a long, slimy worm with a head shaped like a shovel or a hammer? If you have, you ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizarre animals: a branching marine worm named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi that lives inside sea sponges and reproduces in a ...