FOR centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm - dark pink, slimy and inedible - was on the end of a fish hook. But the invertebrates' unappreciated status is about to change. Their blood, ...

For centuries, the only use humans found for the lugworm — dark pink, slimy and inedible — was on the end of a fish hook. However, the invertebrates’ unappreciated status is about to change. Their ...

Arenicola marina spends its life in a burrow in the sediment so opportunities to meet a mate are limited "Citizen scientists" are being sought to keep an eye out for signs of passion in the lugworm ...

ABSTRACT: Thermal tolerance windows were investigated in lugworms Arenicola marina (L.) from the North Sea, the English Channel and the Atlantic during winter and summer seasons. We adopted the ...

Chapman and Newell 1 have recently published the following argument : (1) Lugworms can burrow into a particular beach whether covered by sea-water or not. The total downward thrust which a worm can ...

IN his recent letter in Nature 1, Wells gives an interesting account of the movements and action of the proboscis of the lugworm and of the part that it plays in burrowing. He considers that its ...

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