India's bristle worms are often overlooked. But they are crucial to the health of the country's wetlands – which is why local women are working to catch the poachers decimating their population.

Once in your guts (your small intestine, to be specific), the worms live their best lives, maturing to adults, finding mates, and reproducing, all while sucking the life-blood out of you from the ...

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...

“It’s just so unusual,” said Robert Cowie, a research professor at the University of Hawaii and an expert in the parasitic worm that infected the woman. After a week of these ...

We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: Russian scientists have revived and cloned 24,000-year-old zombies. Don’t worry—this isn’t a Walking Dead situation. The undead organisms in ...

You can typically get rid of a ringworm infection with over-the-counter (OTC) antifungal treatments. Certain cleaning practices at home may also help speed recovery. A ringworm rash can be ...

In a recent breakthrough, researchers determined that a worm which had been frozen for about 46,000 years had survived and remained alive. Dr. Philipp Schiffer, a group leader in the Institute of ...

But how is protein powder made? It depends on the type of protein you want to take but contrary to the popular myth, protein powder is not made from maggots or any kind of worms. It’s usually made ...

A wormery is a great way of recycling kitchen and small amounts of garden waste, using worms to turn this material into nutrient-rich natural compost. A sump within the wormery also holds any excess ...