Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

A ribbon worm kept in a laboratory aquarium for decades has turned out to be the oldest known example of its kind. Its age, ...

A strange, new species of ribbon worm, Pararosa vigarae, stretches its body like an accordion, capable of shrinking to unimaginable lengths.

Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm ...

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) ...

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 ...