The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...
Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...
Twice a year these tiny insects—called dismalites—offer one of nature’s best light shows in northern Alabama’s Dismals Canyon. Dismalites, the larve of bioluminescent Orfelia fultoni, steals the show ...