The worm is a nemertean, a group of soft-bodied marine predators found from tide pools to the deep sea. Its species is ...

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world's oldest ribbon worm on record. The adopted invertebrate is fondly called ...

At their longest, ribbon worms can grow up to 180 feet, or the equivalent of two blue whales or 720 gummy worms. Turns out, these lanky crawlers also have lengthy lifespans. For over 20 years, the ...

Necrobotics is a field of engineering that builds robots out of a mix of synthetic materials and animal body parts. It has produced micro-grippers with pneumatically operated legs taken from dead ...

Earth is full of giants, but “longest” doesn’t always mean “heaviest” or “biggest-looking.” Some of the longest animals might be as small as worms or jellyfish. Be it a thin ribbon like an animal ...

A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

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 ...

Many bugs can live in and on strawberries, but the berries are generally safe to eat as long as they look fresh. Eating fly maggots from strawberries is not harmful to your health and may provide ...