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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, parasitic worms that can infect humans.

More than 90 percent of popular Southern California freshwater game fish sampled in a new study contained invasive worms ...

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