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The Electric Worm Gets the Fly  The New York Times How tiny worms leap through the air to catch their prey  Earth.com This Parasitic Worm Uses Static Electricity to Lasso Bugs Out of the Air  VICE Scientists Have Revealed the ‘Shocking’ Hunting Abilities of These Tiny Predaory Worms  The Debrief This jumping roundworm uses static electricity to attach to flying insects  Physics World Source link

In Siberian permafrost, scientists thawed ancient soil and saw tiny nematodes move. These animals “woke up” after an extremely long freeze and resumed life functions in the lab. Their revival raises clear scientific questions and practical ones. How long were they there? What helped them survive? Could the same biology help modern medicine store living material more safely? …

A tiny animal with an extraordinary ability could teach us how to regenerate lost or damaged body parts. A beheading is lethal for most animals, but not for the flatworm. Chop its head off, and it will simply grow back. The disembodied head, too, can grow itself a whole new body in a matter of days – in fact, almost …

QUICK FACTS Name: Paralvinella hessleri Where it lives: Pacific Ocean What it eats: Bacteria and organic debris around hydrothermal vents Deep-sea creatures are uniquely adapted to living in extreme environments, and the worm Paralvinella hessleri is no exception. In fact, it survives high levels of toxic chemicals like arsenic by creating its own poison. P. hessleri is a member of …

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, …