An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have sequence the genome of the acorn worm and found a wide variety of similar genes ...

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The acorn worm (Saccoglossus kowalevskii) is an important research organism in evolutionary developmental biology and is collected in Woods Hole. Its eggs are very fragile and they typically don ...

It’s a new species. Glossobalanus weii, or the Wei acorn worm, is a 7-inch-long marine worm that burrows in a mixture of sand, rocks and crushed shells, according to a study published May 27 in ...