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Worms use a lunar clock to time their mating ritual

Prof Kristin Tessmar-Raible from the Vienna Biocentre in Austria explains how the new moon is telling worms when it鈥檚 time to reproduce.

(Image: Marine bristle worms, Credit: Albrecht Fischer.)

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