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Fish Against Monster Worms (Universität Basel)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Sep 2016
(Source. Universität Basel) 19 September 2016 ... The study has been published in Scientific Reports ... The annelid buries itself in the sand up to its head and lies in wait for its prey, luring it in with worm-shaped tentacles ... These annelid predators live beneath the sandy ocean floors of the Indo-Pacific and can reach up to three meters in length ... Novel mobbing strategies of a fish population against a sessile annelid predator ... (noodl....

Foul play

Edit The Economist 25 Aug 2016
Blistering barnacles! ... Dealing with it costs billions of dollars a year and often involves toxic chemicals whose use is being progressively restricted ... Dr Shikuma studies tubeworms. These shell-forming annelids have become model organisms for students of ship-fouling ... ....

Exotic, invasive 'crazy snake worm' discovered in Oregon

Edit The Oregonian 12 Aug 2016
Jim Labonte, senior taxonomic entomologist at the Oregon Department of Agriculture, said the worms are distinctive for their behavior, which sets them apart from other more sedentary annelids. "They don't look very different, other than they are a little more slender," he said. "But these worms can thrash about so violently when they are disturbed that they can get clear off the ground." ... —   Kale Williams ... ....

Newly discovered fossils strengthen proposition that world’s first mass extinction engineered by early animals July 29, 2016 (Vanderbilt University)

Edit Public Technologies 29 Jul 2016
(Source. Vanderbilt University). by David Salisbury . Jul. 29, 2016, 9.12 AM . Want more research news? Subscribe to our weekly newsletter » ... (Simon Darroch / Vanderbilt) ... Animals burst onto the scene in a frenzy of diversification that paleontologists have labeled the Cambrian explosion, a 25 million-year period when most of the modern animal families - vertebrates, mollusks, arthropods, annelids, sponges and jellyfish - came into being....

Worms W.M.D. Environmental Trailer

Edit GamersHell 20 Jul 2016
Throughout the game, players will get to take part in turn-based annelid warfare across 6 themes. Countryside, Downtown, Frontier, Motherland, Rainforest and Orient ... buildings ... ....

Antarctic bryozoans give hints of environmental changes in oceans (Universitat de Barcelona)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source ... It is worth remembering that the UB and IRBio team led by Conxita Àvila has contributed to the discovery of the first Osedax bone-eating worm in the Antarctic continent and the Mediterranean, the nemertean Antarctonemertes riesgoae, which has a bizarre reproductive behaviour, and the annelid Parougia diapason, a new species discovered in Deception Island, among others, in the South Shetland Islands in the Southern Ocean ... Doi....

New bone-eating worm species discovered in Blanes (Universitat de Barcelona)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Apr 2016
(Source. Universitat de Barcelona). A female Osedax deceptionensis tube. Due to the transparency at the base of the tube one can see the palps of the female and in the most distal part are eggs held within the tube ... 05/04/2016. Recerca ... An annelid specialised in sunken vertebrate bones. Osedax, commonly known as bone-eating worms, are marine annelid worms that are an important example of evolutionary adaptation to a specialised habitat ... DOI....

Symbiosis with partner exchange (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Mar 2016
(Source. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften eV). In worm-bacteria symbioses some microbes remain faithful to their hosts, others to their location. March 11, 2016. If your favourite pub moves - would you move too or look for another pub? For bacteria living in symbiosis with marine worms it all depends on whether they sit outside or inside the pub. Scientifically speaking ... [more] ... Nematodes and annelids ... FH/HR ... (noodl....

Art seen: February 4

Edit Otago Daily Times 03 Feb 2016
‘‘Diorama. Games with Colour and Light'' by Marion Mertens (Moray Gallery). Moray Gallery this week opened ‘‘Diorama. Games with Colour and Light'', an exhibition of miniature sculptural works by Marion Mertens. More than 30 of Mertens' small wall-mounted dioramas are on display in an exhibition of charming intricacies ... Works such as Choir No1 and Annelid Family No1 show small organisms sculpted out of clay ...   ...   ... ....

Researchers at the University of Barcelona embark on a new research campaign in the Antarctica ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Jan 2016
(Source. Universitat de Barcelona) ... Photo ... Researchers at the University of Barcelona and the IRBio have made other significant discoveries of Antarctic marine invertebrates, for example the bone-eating worm of the genus Osedax, the nemertean Antarctonemertes riesgoae, which has a unique reproductive strategy, and the annelid Parougia diapason, a new species discovered on Deception Island (South Shetland Islands), in the Southern Ocean....

Fossil fireworm named after punk icon Henry Rollins

Edit Yahoo Daily News 22 Nov 2015
Washington D.C, Nov 22 (ANI) ... The fossil worm is a polychaete annelid, a marine relative of earthworms and leeches. Polychaetes are entirely soft bodied and thus seldom occur as fossils ... (ANI) ....

Fossil fireworm species named after rock musician (University of Bristol)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Bristol) ... The fossil worm is a polychaete annelid, a marine relative of earthworms and leeches. Polychaetes are entirely soft bodied and thus seldom occur as fossils ... Bristol PhD student Luke Parry, one of the researchers who made the discovery, said ... Using CT scanning, the scientists investigated the three dimensional arrangement of muscles in living annelids to compare them with Rollinschaeta ... Paper ... and Vinther, J....

Fossil fireworm species named after rock musician

Edit Science Daily 19 Nov 2015
A muscly fossil fireworm has been named Rollinschaeta myoplena in honor of punk musician and spoken word artist, Henry Rollins. The fossil worm is a polychaete annelid, a marine relative of earthworms and leeches ... ....
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