I decided that I, too, needed to attend the Longwood Area Worm Meeting. Thus began a trip into the world of C. elegans worms and the people who love them. In 25 years as a writer in Boston, I’ve ...

Jumping worms wiggle madly, even “jumping” out of your hand. They look like other worms, but the collar, called the Clitellum, is close to the head, white, and not raised above the rest of the ...

If you aren’t one of the 5 million people who’ve watched a 9-second video of a bizarre purple worm vomit a milky living tree all over a random man’s hand (perhaps in Thailand, judging from ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In ...

Ahmedabad: A microscopic worm has done what chemicals and machines couldn't — clean up water samples from Ahmedabad's most polluted lakes in just a week. Researchers at Gujarat University's ...

A 10-millimeter (0.4-inch) nematode tower twists and folds as the mass of worms reaches for the lid of its petri dish. - Perez et al. 2025/Current Biology ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, was discovered in South Africa's Karoo region, marking the first record from this arid area and indicating a historically more forested landscape.

The first to document this symbiosis between the squid and the worms was Olga Hartman, an American invertebrate zoologist, in 1944.And while some experts like Zeidberg see the worms as midwives ...

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms capable of infecting humans, scientists warn. The parasites — two species ...

JANESVILLE — With a slight tremble, Adel Smith’s hand passes over a rainbow-colored Worry Worm, its pink hearts blushing, its eyes and smile finely embroidered in black.

Volunteers are being sought to help survey for glow worms at a country estate. They will spend 10 weeks looking for the insects, which are beetles that use bioluminescence to attract mates, across ...

Bygones: 'Army worms' invaded Northland 5 consecutive years in 1950s An army of forest tent caterpillars swarm the yards of residents in Lakewood Township near Duluth in May 2000. Bob King / File ...