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 ...

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.

Southern Californians have been warned that more than 90 percent of popular game fish have been found to contain invasive, ...

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms capable of infecting humans, scientists are warning. The parasites — two ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting ...