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

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

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

which demonstrated for the first time that microRNA was involved in gene regulation in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans – a finding that the Nobel Prize committee has said was "initially met ...