A video shared in late December 2023 authentically showed a ribbon worm, "spitting a living, tree-like proboscis to hunt it's prey." The earliest instance of the video being shared we found was a ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Photo courtesy of Svetlana Maslakova (Florida Museum of Natural History) ...

The phylum includes ~1300 described species, but the actual diversity is likely at least 10 times that number, judging from the rate at which we discover undescribed species. Nemerteans are ubiquitous ...

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This video is making the rounds on the Internet that shows a worm attempt to attack a hand. The Nemerta, also known as a "ribbon worm," is secreting its proboscis in an attempt to see if it can feed ...

Photographs of flatworm and ribbon worm larvae collected from the waters around Bocas del Toro. Most marine invertebrates have a planktonic larval stage that is very different from the familiar adult ...

Researchers recently found over 100 species of ribbon worm, most of which are new to science, off of the coast of Oman. Most are smaller than a toothpick, though some can grow longer than a blue whale ...