Earthworms are known more for being slimy and gross than for their beauty, but they take on a new level of revolting under the microscope.

Earthworms are special because they keep our ... a special three-dimensional imaging approach of the chemistry and anatomy of millimeter-sized animals and their parasites at a cellular level ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil that can be assigned to the living annelid worms, the group of animals that contains earthworms, leeches and many different forms in the ocean ...

The biggest earthworm ever found in Britain has been discovered and then immediately killed by scientists. Dave was the size of a small snake – 40cm long and weighing 26g. He was discovered ...

It's a function that makes it similar to leeches and earthworms, the species into which it eventually evolved. Kootenayscolex barbarensis is part of a group of animals called annelids (or the ...

Clusters of fossil serpulid worm tubes, like these Rotularia from the British Eocene, are common fossils in many Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine rocks The Museum’s collection of fossil annelids is both ...