A new genetic analysis of a large group of ringed worms called annelids proves a 150-year-old hypothesis that these many species can be split into the lazy bums and the jocks. The annelids, which ...

Scientists have used microRNA data to investigate the evolutionary relationships of annelids, which include earthworms, leeches and bristle worms, to show that this large animal group evolved as a ...

Researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto have described an exceptionally well-preserved new fossil species of bristle worm called Kootenayscolex barbarensis. Discovered ...

A new species of leech, Haemopis latero-maculatum (Annelida, Hirudinea, Hirudidae), is described, and its ecology and known distribution are summarized. The new species was discovered in the summer of ...

The demand for rare raw materials, such as cobalt, is fuelling the exploration of the deep-sea floor for mining. Commercial deep-sea mining is currently prohibited in areas beyond national ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Capitellid polychaetes are ubiquitous throughout the world’s oceans and are often encountered in high abundance. We used an extensive dataset ...

A new species of ancient sea worm with an impressively elaborate set of star-shaped chaetae has been discovered after its puzzling fossilized form was found to be animal not mineral. And just as ...

WHEN Huxley was appointed professor in the Jermyn Street School of Mines, his first great scheme was the publication by Government of a zoological coast survey of Great Britain, and one of the first ...