A professor kept a pet worm for 20 years. It just set a record.

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you! Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Jonathan Allen, a biology professor at The College of William & Mary in Virginia, has a very strange pet: a very very long ribbon worm (phylum nemertea) named Baseodiscus the Eldest, or just B for short. Ribbon worms, also called nemerteans, are one of the longest animals on Earth, but Allen isn’t horrified by his pal. B has been living its best life in…

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