Invasive hammerhead worms are spreading in Texas, and have been spotted in Houston, Dallas, Austin and toward the coast.

Inside the world of C. elegans worms and the scientists who know them best.

Toxic hammerhead worms are resurfacing in North Texas following a bout of heavy rain.

The hammerhead worm is popping up in counties throughout the Metroplex and experts say it’s a real threat to plants, animals, and even people.

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

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding.

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

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

Jumping worms reproduce quickly and can form dense populations. Here's how to protect your garden from this invasive species.

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it.

Helminth, parasitic worms, are common in children but can affect adults too.

Although the 2008 study did not find evidence that harmful compounds in rainwater drove worms out of the soil, Whitman did note that worm researchers sometimes use chemicals to gather worms.