A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...

Biodiversity, the rich variety of life found on Earth, is vanishing. I'm a conservation scientist keen to monitor this loss ...

Exploration on Google Earth led to an astonishing discovery: a massive rock formation protruding from a remote desert landscape, revealing the remains of an ancient seabed. This desolate area, once ...

New research reveals that nematodes naturally build living worm towers in the wild, offering fresh insights into collective ...

Ding and her colleagues captured video footage of the nematode towers in fallen apples and pears in orchards in Konstanz, Germany. They describe their discovery in a study published Thursday in the ...

Aquatic blackworms, facing starvation and low oxygen, unite to form 'wormnadoes,' writhing towers observed in the wild for the first time. This collective behavior, previously seen only in labs, ...

A new study reveals that eating raw freshwater fish could expose you to dangerous parasitic worms that are spreading across ...

What do earthworms eat? Most of us learn in school that earthworms are good for the soil and help maintain a healthy ...

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

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

Scientists have issued an urgent warning over parasite-riddled food eaten by millions of Americans in several US states.