Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Insanely Long Ribbon Worm Turns Out to Be The Oldest on Record Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world's oldest ...

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Each year Jon Allen, an associate professor of marine biology at William & Mary, gingerly removes the anemones and brittle stars from a saltwater tank. He then sifts through the mud for his nearly ...

Maddie Frey was still in the early days of her fellowship at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Reserve when she grabbed a bucket and trowel and headed out to the shoreline behind the university’s marine lab ...

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 ...

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Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world's oldest ribbon worm on record. The adopted invertebrate is fondly called Baseodiscus the Eldest, and he is at least 26 years old, probably around ...