The results cap a seven-year effort by a team of researchers to test whether an ancient, unusual cell-signaling mechanism might explain a mysterious, often fatal disease. Specifically, the work ...

Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean’s most bizzare animals: a branching marine worm named Ramisyllis kingghidorahi that lives inside sea sponges and reproduces in a ...

A species of nemertean worm discovered by a marine biologist five years ago affects the reproductive performance of Caribbean spiny lobsters, a critical species in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of ...