Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to ...

Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, ...

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

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these multi-nematode ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

New satellite technology is uncovering massive underground structures beneath the Faiyum region of Egypt, possibly linked to the legendary Labyrinth of Herodotus. Scans reveal a network of hidden ...

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

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it ...

The parents were cleaning the glow worm stuffed light-up toy when they opened the back and found a sandwich bag filled with more than 5,000 pills believed to be fentanyl, a synthetic opioid ...