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World Service,1 min

Worms use a lunar clock to time their mating ritual

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Prof Kristin Tessmar-Raible from the Vienna Biocentre in Austria explains how the new moon is telling worms when it’s time to reproduce. (Image: Marine bristle worms, Credit: Albrecht Fischer.)

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