Welcome to the wonderful world of ancient hairy worms! Ocean worms are scientifically known as Polychaetes, with "poly" ...

This site yielded fossils of a newly identified species of ancient worm, Timorebestia koprii ... the broader evolutionary framework of early marine predators.” Insights into Cambrian Ecosystems ...

“And in marine ecosystems we have temperatures that ... suggesting that the microbes and the worms may have coevolved. “The symbiosis started in ancient times, probably when the habitat was different, ...

There was one sponge on top of the other, and they were huge," Antje Boetius, a deep-sea biologist at the Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine ... remnants of ancient tube worms — and many ...

An international research team has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous ...

The “lost and found” animal was a marine worm called a polychaete, according to the study. However, a few key features set the worm apart from previously described species. The holotype ...