Arthropods, such as crustaceans, were the most common; worms (Annelida) and mollusks followed closely. “We limited ourselves to the area north of 66 degrees northern latitude and below a depth of 500 ...

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

“We wanted to focus more on what we can do to make our soil better,” Barth said. The solution? Vermicomposting — the process of using annelid worms to break down leftover food scraps into ...

primarily via the Worms series. As a kid, there were few things I enjoyed more than sending my younger brother's annelid army scattering with a perfectly deployed woolly bomb, though admittedly ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

New Zealand is well known for its Bird of the Year competition, which has seen winners ranging from a delightfully round, drunk pigeon to a rogue bat. But did you know it awards a “Bug of the ...

Xenoturbella bocki is a small marine worm predominantly found on the seafloor of fjords along the west coast of Sweden. This simple organism’s unusual evolutionary history has long intrigued ...

To study desmosomal networks, we skeletonised 853 muscle cells and their desmosomal partners in volume electron microscopy data covering an entire larva of the annelid Platynereis. Muscle cells adhere ...