Researchers have traced the journey of a plastic bottle cap recovered near the waters of southern Japan by combining data ...

Most polychaete species spend their lives in burrows in the seabed. However, adult individuals of two species, Alitta succinea and Platynereis dumerilii, leave their burrows to spawn during warm ...

Unbeknownst to most landlubbers, polychaetes rule the seas. There are at least 10,000 species of these swimming bristly worms, some of which pop with brilliant colors or light up with a bioluminescent ...

Sport junkie or couch potato? Always on time or often late? The animal kingdom, too, is home to a range of personalities, each with its own lifestyle. Biologists report on a surprising discovery: even ...

The lessons invertebrate zoologist Karen Osborn learns from the tiny worms may have robotic implications Megan Kalomiris Cirratulidae polychaete worms are covered in tangled strands of external gills.

"Why study worms?" asks Dr Pat Hutchings, one of the Australian Museum's senior principal research scientists, with a passion that belies the fact she has pored over polychaetes – or seaworms as they ...

Several Acaenoplax structures (such as lobes, ridges and the postero–ventral plate) lack convincing polychaete or molluscan homologues, and hence are considered to be autapomorphic and ...

This species bring a whole new meaning to butt face. It’s Latin name even means butt face. I jest… it actually means resembling a pig’s rump. Chaetopterus pugaporcinus is a polychaete and like other ...

The researchers found one and sometimes two polychaete inside a jellyfish. This aurelia aurita jellyfish has two worms in its gut. Photo: Hannah Yeo/SDU. Most polychaete species spend their lives in ...