Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, ...

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to ...

Research out today is the first to document nematodes in the wild amassing into towers, likely as a way to reach new places.

Scientists captured nematodes that stack themselves into a wriggling, vertical tower for the first time. Watch the tiny architects in action.

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these multi-nematode ...

The microscopic roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, might be Earth's secret superhero. These tube-shaped creatures, which thrive on rotting vegetation, may seem unremarkable at first glance.

A new working model explains the molecular mechanism by which the protein anillin controls asymmetry during cell division, ...

Learn how this species of worm detects death, resulting in a range of behavioral and physiological responses.

The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...

Classified as a nematode, the roundworm caenorhabditis elegans (or c. elegans to its friends) might seem like just another tiny thing to someone who’s not looking at the current research around ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long ... soil worm’s outsize role in scientific discovery. The one-millimeter nematode has helped scientists understand how healthy cells are instructed ...