A bizarre, worm-like creature which had a helmet and spikes along its body roamed the earth 518 million years ago. Archaeologists have found fossils of a sea creature they described as “strange ...

Meet Hallucigenia, a spiky worm from over half a billion years ago that defied the rules of nature and forced us to rethink the story of life on Earth. Its discovery shook the scientific world ...

Barefoot beachgoers in Texas are being warned of a spiky new menace lurking underfoot – venomous sea worms. Known as bristle worms, or marine polychaetes, the prickly creatures are rarely seen ...

Of the 90 lobsters, nearly 88% had either nemertean worms or worm cysts and egg masses. Embryo mortality, indicated by empty capsules and dead embryos, ranged between 0% and 43.81% in infected ...

An animal that could be mistaken for a spiky fruit is giving scientists a ... to those found in the exoskeletons of extinct and living worms and brachiopods, suggesting a common origin.

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This finding was published in Nature. Acanthocephalans, commonly known as thorny-headed or spiny-headed worms, are a group of endoparasitic worms found in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

Some researchers refer to them as "hair worms." Karen Osborn Squirming throughout ... her lab serves as the museum’s research hub on these spiny critters. This World Polychaete Day, Meet a ...

Acanthocephala — commonly known as thorny-headed or spiny-headed worms — comprises a highly specialized group of internal parasites that have an eversible proboscis (an extendable and ...