Bye bye, butt. Some segmented sea worms like the syllid worm go through a reproductive process called stolonization.The stolon is the worm’s posterior organ and it is full of eggs or sperm ...

This sea worm's butt detaches from its body to swim off in search of love Reproduction can be challenging for marine life, but this worm has worked out how to multitask Nakamura et al/( CC By 4.0 ) ...

There is a type of sea worm that, believe it or not, detaches its own butt from the rest of its body which then swims off in search of a mate. But how this process occurs has always been a mystery ...

In the case of the deep-sea worms, their tissues had an unusually low ratio of carbon-13 to carbon-12, meaning that the carbon in the worm's body probably came from methane.

A Sea Worm's Surprising Living Arrangement In a well-explored part of the Pacific, researchers have discovered a novel species of worm. The female tube worms live with dozens of males and food ...

Take the tube worm Escarpia laminata : living in an environment with a year-round abundance of food and no predators, individuals seem to live for over 300 years. And some may be 1000 years old ...

One of the new Peinaleopolynoe worms is named after Elvis because its iridescent scales look like costume sequins. Newly discovered 'glitter worms' dance and fight one another underwater - CNET X ...

Scientists capture footage of bizarre deep-sea creature with parasite pig tails Diverse worms Until 1965, researchers thought that acorn worms were shallow-water species .

People have more in common with deep-sea worms than one might suspect. Over 500 million years ago, humans and certain worms shared a common ancestor, and people still share thousands of genes with ...