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Scientists decoded the true identity of the mezcal worm, long shrouded in myth. Credit: Stock A genetic study has finally solved the mystery of the worm inside mezcal bottles. While speculation ranged from butterflies to weevils, DNA analysis revealed that all sampled larvae came from a single moth species, Comadia redtenbacheri. This insect is a traditional delicacy in Mexico, believed …

Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a microscopic armour of yellow orpiment.Credit: Wang et al./PLoS Biol (CC BY 4.0) A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth …

This Golden Arsenic Deep-Sea Worm Fights Poison With Poison  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News Source link

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine creatures with a distinctly phallic appearance. There are more than 20 known species living across the world’s oceans today, as well as a number …

Here’s something to remind you that things could always be worse. A case study this month documents a man whose eye became infested with a parasitic worm. Doctors in India detailed the real-life body horror tale in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. The man was afflicted by a parasitic roundworm typically found in cats and dogs. What’s …

For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn’t take long for doctors to unearth the cause. In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, …

When scientists discover new prehistoric species, the fossils alone fail to conjure the creature in the flesh. It’s impossible to summon the entirety ancient shark from a single tooth, or some weird old rodent from a fragment of a jaw. This is where paleoart comes in, with illustrations that help you imagine how such an animal might have looked in …

Fossilized penis worm suggests Grand Canyon was an evolutionary hotbed  The Washington Post Grand Canyon Fossils Offer Glimpse Into When Complex Life Appeared  The New York Times Stunning Grand Canyon Fossils Reveal Evolution’s Weird Experiments  ScienceAlert Treasure trove of half-billion-year-old animal fossils in Grand Canyon  cosmosmagazine.com Fossil discovery reveals the Grand Canyon was a ‘Goldilocks zone’ for the evolution of early animals  Phys.org Source link