With midterms, papers due, and scheduling office hours, the biodiversity of the UVic campus invites students to be grounded ...

The study of the physiology and ecology of animals that don't have backbones, ranging from worms to sea stars, and of parasites, which can often provide insights into complex ecosystems. (Sea star ...

This critter is dubbed a “living fossil” and was named New Zealand’s “Bug of the Year,” and the way it turns its prey into soup is pretty unique (and gross), too. The ce ...

You can typically get rid of a ringworm infection with over-the-counter (OTC) antifungal treatments. Certain cleaning practices at home may also help speed recovery. A ringworm rash can be ...

This new species of annelid worm was found in deep sea sediments near methane seeps off the Pacific coast of central America. Anguillosyllis have an interesting evolutionary placement within Syllidae ...

Once in your guts (your small intestine, to be specific), the worms live their best lives, maturing to adults, finding mates, and reproducing, all while sucking the life-blood out of you from the ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

New Zealand is well known for its Bird of the Year competition, which has seen winners ranging from a delightfully round, drunk pigeon to a rogue bat. But did you know it awards a “Bug of the ...

Xenoturbella bocki is a small marine worm predominantly found on the seafloor of fjords along the west coast of Sweden. This simple organism’s unusual evolutionary history has long intrigued ...

Bristle worms are a group of annelid worms that mostly live in the sea. Their scientific name, Polychaeta, means “many bristles” and refers to the stiff bristles on the worms’ bodies. There are around ...

To study desmosomal networks, we skeletonised 853 muscle cells and their desmosomal partners in volume electron microscopy data covering an entire larva of the annelid Platynereis. Muscle cells adhere ...