Scientists in the South China Sea scooped up some muck, sifted through it and found the “rarely encountered” animal. Take a ...

One reason was that we found lin-4 in the process of exploring genetic pathways underlying developmental phenomena in the worm. There was no theoretical need to explain existing phenomena in terms ...

Photos from Lin, Huang, Liang and He (2025 ... Sea polychaete belongs to a genus of “rarely encountered” marine worms and is the first species of its genus to be found in the South China ...