The common clam worm is where beauty really lies in the eye of the beholder. The clam worm is the ubiquitous worm of the rocky and sandy coast — found under rocks in tidepools, sharing burrows with ...

SOME resemble flowers, others look like aliens - they can even make the sand below your towel, as you sit on a Sydney beach, their homes. All are worms - or polychaetes to be precise - a type of ...

In 1963, on a hunch, a South African biologist named Sydney Brenner decided to study a species of worms named C. elegans. The worms turned out to be the perfect lab animal. They were simple creatures ...

It was only a matter of time before the humble worm got its own day. July 1 is the first International Polychaete Day, and museums around the world—including the Australian Museum, London's Natural ...