A video shared in late December 2023 authentically showed a ribbon worm, "spitting a living, tree-like proboscis to hunt it's prey." The earliest instance of the video being shared we found was a ...

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 ...

Maddie Frey was still in the early days of her fellowship at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve when she grabbed a bucket and trowel and headed out to the shoreline behind the university’s marine lab ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale ...

The phylum includes ~1300 described species, but the actual diversity is likely at least 10 times that number, judging from the rate at which we discover undescribed species. Nemerteans are ubiquitous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The earliest instance of the video being shared we found was a re-post of a TikTok video by @thatcherisdeadding Reddit user from ...