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This Worm Quietly Lived In A Lab For Decades, But They Had No Idea Just How Old It Truly WasWilliam & Mary Biology Professor Jon Allen holds the world’s oldest ribbon worm on record for a class of W&M students.

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This Worm Quietly Lived In A Lab For Decades, But They Had No Idea Just How Old It Truly WasWilliam & Mary Biology Professor Jon Allen holds the world’s oldest ribbon worm on record for a class of W&M students.
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This Worm Quietly Lived In A Lab For Decades, But They Had No Idea Just How Old It Truly Was

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Bizarre Creature With "All-Body Brain" Challenges What We Know About Evolution of Nervous SystemsPurple sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus) on a rock by the sea.

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Bizarre Creature With "All-Body Brain" Challenges What We Know About Evolution of Nervous SystemsPurple sea urchins (Paracentrotus lividus) on a rock by the sea.
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Bizarre Creature With "All-Body Brain" Challenges What We Know About Evolution of Nervous Systems

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“I Wasn’t Prepared For The Sheer Number Of Them”: Cave Of Mummified Never-Before-Seen Eyeless Invertebrates Amazes ScientistsA wasp with no eyes and very long curled antenna the body is reddish brown.

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“I Wasn’t Prepared For The Sheer Number Of Them”: Cave Of Mummified Never-Before-Seen Eyeless Invertebrates Amazes ScientistsA wasp with no eyes and very long curled antenna the body is reddish brown.
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“I Wasn’t Prepared For The Sheer Number Of Them”: Cave Of Mummified Never-Before-Seen Eyeless Invertebrates Amazes Scientists

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Fast, Ferocious, and Fearsome: Meet The Sun Spiders Of The SolifugaeLarge yellowish invertebrate on a rocky surface. Side onto the camera with two front legs raise, the body looks hairy with large darker colored mouthparts.

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Fast, Ferocious, and Fearsome: Meet The Sun Spiders Of The SolifugaeLarge yellowish invertebrate on a rocky surface. Side onto the camera with two front legs raise, the body looks hairy with large darker colored mouthparts.
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Fast, Ferocious, and Fearsome: Meet The Sun Spiders Of The Solifugae

clock-iconJune 12, 2025
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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million YearsDeep sea soft coral Iridogorgia is one of many members of the octocorals that uses bioluminescence it inherited from a pre-Cambrian ancestor

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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million YearsDeep sea soft coral Iridogorgia is one of many members of the octocorals that uses bioluminescence it inherited from a pre-Cambrian ancestor
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Bioluminescent Animals Have Been Glowing For At Least 540 Million Years

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Natural History Museum Names 815 New-To-Science Species In Record-Breaking YearSmall gecko species on a rock with a beautiful gold eye and a pointed tail.

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Natural History Museum Names 815 New-To-Science Species In Record-Breaking YearSmall gecko species on a rock with a beautiful gold eye and a pointed tail.
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Natural History Museum Names 815 New-To-Science Species In Record-Breaking Year

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Invertebrates Shouldn't Be Treated Like They Don’t Feel Pain, Urges Reviewarticle image

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Invertebrates Shouldn't Be Treated Like They Don’t Feel Pain, Urges Reviewarticle image
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Invertebrates Shouldn't Be Treated Like They Don’t Feel Pain, Urges Review

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Scientists Aim To Sequence The DNA Of Every Single Complex Organism On Eartharticle image

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Scientists Aim To Sequence The DNA Of Every Single Complex Organism On Eartharticle image
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Scientists Aim To Sequence The DNA Of Every Single Complex Organism On Earth

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This Is What Happened To The Wildlife In The Area After The Chernobyl Disasterarticle image

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This Is What Happened To The Wildlife In The Area After The Chernobyl Disasterarticle image
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This Is What Happened To The Wildlife In The Area After The Chernobyl Disaster

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At Least Five New Species Among Massive Haul Of Deep-Sea Beasties Caught Off Australia's Coastarticle image

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At Least Five New Species Among Massive Haul Of Deep-Sea Beasties Caught Off Australia's Coastarticle image
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At Least Five New Species Among Massive Haul Of Deep-Sea Beasties Caught Off Australia's Coast

clock-iconFebruary 21, 2018

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This Sightless Invertebrate Is Probably Doing More To Fight Climate Change Than Youarticle image

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This Sightless Invertebrate Is Probably Doing More To Fight Climate Change Than Youarticle image
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This Sightless Invertebrate Is Probably Doing More To Fight Climate Change Than You

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Nearly 1,500 New Viruses Have Just Been Discovered In Chinaarticle image

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Nearly 1,500 New Viruses Have Just Been Discovered In Chinaarticle image
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Nearly 1,500 New Viruses Have Just Been Discovered In China

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Dragonflies Hold Turf Wars For Control Of Elephants’ Footprintsarticle image

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Dragonflies Hold Turf Wars For Control Of Elephants’ Footprintsarticle image
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Dragonflies Hold Turf Wars For Control Of Elephants’ Footprints

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Praying Mantises Wearing 3D Glasses Help Us Understand Insect Visionarticle image

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Praying Mantises Wearing 3D Glasses Help Us Understand Insect Visionarticle image
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Praying Mantises Wearing 3D Glasses Help Us Understand Insect Vision

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Octopus Leaps From Water To Attack Crabarticle image

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Octopus Leaps From Water To Attack Crabarticle image
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Octopus Leaps From Water To Attack Crab

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