Bizarre deep-sea creatures imaged off New Zealand

Vestimentiferan worms - a type of tube worm widely seen at the methane seeps - were sampled from the "Builder's Pencil" site. Builder’s Pencil, which covers 180,000 square metres, is one of the largest seep sites in the world (Image: NOAA/NIWA)

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Calif. Encourages Bringing Worms to Work

Next to a copy machine on the 10th floor of the city's public works building sits a plastic bin filled with worms wriggling in rotting lettuce. Public servants walk by without even glancing at the box or the note above it: "Quiet please. Worms at work."

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Hungry Critters Attack NYC Ships, Piers

The city's waterfront is getting cleaner, and bothersome river critters not seen in hundreds of years are once again attacking wooden ships and piers.

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With a surprisingly simple genetic tweak, scientists have transformed nematode worms into hermaphrodites. They report in the journal Science that lowering the activity of just two genetic pathways produces the change.

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Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world — mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales — scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, the glimpse shows these creatures to be far more complicated than was known.

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7 giant versions of critters, some of which scientists say shouldn't exist.

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Spanish researchers claim to have discovered evidence of a type of giant worm that lived 475 million years ago and was up to one metre in length.

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Sewer monster found in Raleigh. Oh North Carolina, you make me so happy...

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There's something horrible lurking in the sewers beneath Raleigh, North Carolina. Sinister, pulsating, fleshy mounds of ichorous slime, which seem to be breathing in and out, and occasionally clench like a traumatised sphincter.

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Scientists are working on mutations to generate immortality. This is not a comic book. Early experiments have greatly extended the lifespan of bioengineered worms, enhancing their genetic integrity and giving them resistance to many things that would normally kill them.

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An eco-restaurant has opened in Croatia offering a range of dishes featuring earthworms as the main ingredient. The restaurant in Zadar claims the earthworms, which are farmed on site, are high in protein and low in fat making them highly nutritious.

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The FTC has announced that it has closed down one of the most notorious of the rogue ISPs operating in the U.S. called Pricewert LLC. According to the FTC Pricewert LLC does business under several names including 3FN and APS Telecom.

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Scientists bred worms with the ability to "turn on" a reaction in their body's cells that is usually prompted automatically by a drop in surrounding oxygen.

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Dogs, cats, monkeys, worms, fish--they've all been made to glow in the dark, thanks to one jellyfish and a whole lot of research. In this photo round-up of glowing animals (and the odd plant), see what science has done with a few fluorescent proteins.

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Link-O-Rama: Bert Blyleven eats worms

* NBCSports.com's own Bert Blyleven heard that Rick Porcello was killing worms with his sinker, so the should-be Hall of Famer decided to do him one better and actually eat a few nightcrawlers in the name of charity.

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"About 20,000 heads of livestock and 50 families of herdsmen have" abandoned "a grassland in Usu" in China following "an invasion of unknown worms."

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we have to keep our guard up at all times. this is pretty sophisticated

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t is well established that intestinal parasites dampen mammalian immune reactions. But in a surprise result, scientists have found that another kind of parasite – the body louse – does too.

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As a second Twitter exploit began circulating on the micro-blogging site Sunday, a teen-ager from Brooklyn told CNET News he created both worms to promote his Web site.

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Scary stuff.

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Computer experts around the world continue efforts to stop the "malicious software program called Conficker." The infected computers are programmed to take some action on April 1.

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Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are contributing to climate change by farting laughing gas.

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It's been a rough several days for Facebook from a security perspective: Four hoax applications have surfaced on the site, in addition to the Koobface problem, BBC News reports.

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The "Obama worm" was discovered on the network of a K-12 school and first reported by Walling Data, North America's top distributor of AVG Internet Security Products.

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he secret of worm grunting, a mysterious technique used by fishermen to tempt worms to the surface, has been unearthed.

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Is your security software up to date? I update mine 3 times a day just to be safe as well as I run multiple programs to ensure that I am covered for security.

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Hey everyone here is a link to check out recent viri threats as well as others.

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Ask mothers why babies are constantly picking things up from the floor or ground and putting them in their mouths, and chances are they'll say that it's instinctive — that that's how babies explore the world.

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