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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...