For reference, here's Encyclopaedia Britannica description of a "ribbon worm," also called a "proboscis worm." Ribbon worm, any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called ...

With more than 1,000 species of ribbon worms (phylum Nemertea), most found in the ocean ... of ribbon worms is the presence of a proboscis—a unique muscular structure inside the worm’s ...

That also showed a proboscis shooting out of the worm’s head, this time spreading like glue across a man’s hand. Nemertea are fairly popular on YouTube, where they can be seen attempting to ...

To learn more, mental_floss spoke to biologist Sebastian Kvist, associate curator of invertebrates at the Royal Ontario Museum, where he specializes in Nemertea, the phylum of ribbon worms this ...

For reference, here's Encyclopaedia Britannica description of a "ribbon worm," also called a "proboscis worm." Ribbon worm, any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, ...

The wriggling creatures called ribbon worms protect themselves with toxin-laden mucus and subdue their prey with venom that they inject through a retractable proboscis. But scientists have had a ...

it is likely a ribbon worm — known as Nemertea. "It looks like a ribbon worm — you can see the main red body part and head — that is using its eversible proboscis (all the white stuff ...