These worms use hooks ... tapeworms that parasitize marine elasmobranchs (mainly sharks and rays). Our study thus probably provides not only the first partial body fossil of a tapeworm, but ...

12. Dwellings and structures: Some marine worms secrete calcareous tubes in which they live. The fossil is not of the organism, but of a structure it built. Even more elaborate dwellings have been ...

A new study has shed light on how certain marine worms form bristles ... which is often considered a living fossil. These ...

Clusters of fossil serpulid worm tubes, like these Rotularia from the British Eocene, are common fossils in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine rocks The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both ...

Like most life living in the oceans 500 million years ago, the worm-like creature ... brachiopod (a kind of marine mollusk), which are often considered living fossils. The exhibition is divided ...