wormlike

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Earlier studies had interpreted the marks as evidence of wormlike creatures or other tiny marine animals moving through seafloor sediment during the Ediacaran period, which came just before the Cambrian explosion.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

Amphibians, a class of animals able to live both on land and in the water, consist of three groups: frogs, salamanders and the wormlike animals called caecilians.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023

One of the noticeable things about microbiologist Christian Rinke’s laboratory is the startlingly loud crunching noise of wormlike larvae chewing their way through polystyrene, burrowing into blocks of the plastic foam.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2022

A century ago, scientists knew that genes were spread across 23 pairs of chromosomes, but these strange, wormlike microscopic structures remained largely a mystery.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2021

Inside, it disintegrates and gives rise to a wormlike creature, which then develops into the new Phoenix, ready for the next five hundred years.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas