In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.

All of that data was stolen from the victims of the worm ; it includes no information about the creator of Badtrans.

The actual term " worm "' was first used in John Brunner's 1975 novel, The Shockwave Rider.

It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture ( 1859 ) as " a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other ".

The most prominent case is Robert T. Morris, who was a user of MIT-AI, yet wrote the Morris worm.

When he died, Lindow Man was suffering from slight osteoarthritis and an infestation of whipworm and maw worm.

Jeffrey Lee Parson, a. k. a. T33kid, was an 18-year-old high school student from Minnesota who was responsible for spreading a variant of the infamous Blaster computer worm.

A more recent case may be the Stuxnet computer worm, which was designed to subtly infect and damage specific types of industrial equipment.

( Brunner invented the term " worm " for this program, as a self-replicating program that propagates across a computer network-the term " worm " was later adopted by computer researchers as the name for this type of program.

Brunner's concept of the " computer worm " was inspired by analogy with the tapeworm, a digestive parasite.

In Worms Armageddon, the mortar shell would fall slightly to either side of the target worm if the same glitch was tried.

The earliest recognisable description of Acanthocephala – a worm with a proboscis armed with hooks – was made by Italian author Francesco Redi ( 1684 ).

In 2002, his open relay, along with 24 others, was used by a computer worm to propagate.

The music was cheap and repetitive and not to Holst's liking, and he referred to this kind of work as " worming " ( a pun on Wurm's name, which means " worm " in German ) and regarded it as " criminal ".

His need to " worm " came to an end as his compositions became more successful, and his income was given stability by his teaching posts.

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet.

It is considered the first worm and was certainly the first to gain significant mainstream media attention.

According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.

However, the worm was released from MIT to disguise the fact that the worm originally came from Cornell.

A portable C " grappling hook " component of the worm was used to pull over ( download ) the main body, and the grappling hook could run on other systems, loading them down and making them peripheral victims.

The critical error that transformed the worm from a potentially harmless intellectual exercise into a virulent denial of service attack was in the spreading mechanism.

: The SCO Group becomes the target of the Mydoom computer worm, which was programmed to launch a denial of service attack on the company's website beginning on February 1, 2004.

If still in the system, the worm was programmed to self-remove on January 1, 2004, or after 120 days of processing, whichever would have come first.

She engineers the destruction of Rakis by the Honored Matres to free humanity, leaving one remaining worm to start the cycle anew.

**" The early bird catches the worm " is a common maxim, advocating getting an early start on the day to achieve success.

One or several of the tape-like proglottid segments ( hence the name tape-worm ) regularly detach from the main body of the worm and release immature eggs in fresh water to start the cycle over again.

The villagers start to notice livestock going missing and discover that the fully-grown worm has emerged from the well and coiled itself around a local hill.

With a single start worm, for each 360 ° turn of the worm, the worm-gear advances only one tooth of the gear.

Given a single start worm, a 20 tooth worm gear will reduce the speed by the ratio of 20: 1.

Unlike with ordinary gear trains, the direction of transmission ( input shaft vs output shaft ) is not reversible when using large reduction ratios, due to the greater friction involved between the worm and worm-wheel, when usually a single start ( one spiral ) worm is used.

In April 2006, researchers from Secure Network and F-Secure published a report that warns of the large number of devices left in a visible state, and issued statistics on the spread of various Bluetooth services and the ease of spread of an eventual Bluetooth worm.

Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to other e-mail addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke logger, which then captures everything typed on the affected computer.

A " payload " is code in the worm designed to do more than spread the worm – it might delete files on a host system ( e. g., the ExploreZip worm ), encrypt files in a cryptoviral extortion attack, or send documents via e-mail.

On November 2, 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, a Cornell University computer science graduate student, unleashed what became known as the Morris worm, disrupting an estimated 10 % of the computers then on the Internet and prompting the formation of the CERT Coordination Center and Phage mailing list.

The video camera on board the Kaiko probe spotted a sea cucumber, a scale worm and a shrimp at the bottom.

The key on the tuning machine turns a metal worm, which drives a worm gear that winds the string.

This device had the camera mounted on a vertical axis that could be rotated by a worm gear driven by turning a crank handle, and Paul put it on general sale the next year.

Odrade becomes temporary leader of the Bene Gesserit before escaping with Sheeana into the desert on a worm.

An example of this is the lunar calendar of the Banks Islands which includes three months in which the edible palolo worm mass on the beaches.

The potato root nematode is a microscopic worm that thrives on the roots, thus causing the potato plants to wilt.

Recent studies in fundamental cell biology of cilia and flagella using experimental model organisms such as the round worm Caenorhabditis elegans and the mouse Mus musculus have shed light on how PKD develops in human patients.

Parson only modified the original Blaster worm, already prevalent, using a hex editor to add his screen name to the existing executable, and then attached another existing backdoor, Lithium, and posted it on his website.

Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour all, until 1998, bore markings consisting of the letters " USA " afore an American flag on the left wing, and the pre-1998 NASA " worm " logo afore the respective orbiter's name on the right wing.

Most sextants also include a vernier on the worm dial that reads to 0. 2 minute.

The worm is eventually activated, and the details of all the government's dark secrets ( clandestine genetic experimentation that produces crippled children, bribes and kickbacks from corporations, concealed crimes of high public officials ) now become accessible from anywhere on the network-in fact, those most affected by a particular crime of a government official are emailed the full details.

* Machine head, a flat handle for the worm gear on a string instrument upon which a string is wound

The damage dealt to the attacked worm or worms after any player's turn is shown when all movement on the battlefield has ceased.

The worm is actually the larval form of the moth Hypopta agavis, which lives on the agave plant.