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

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 ...

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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 ...

A long, thin ribbon worm from the coast of Spain can scrunch itself down to about one-fifth of its normal length, then stretch back out as if nothing happened. That party trick, plus a strange pattern ...

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 ...

Scientists have given us another reason to fear – or marvel at – ruddy-hued marine bloodworms. The haunting, copper-fanged invertebrates that may grow to over a foot long can do something remarkable ...