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

The United Kingdom just updated its Invasive Species Horizon-scan, and — plot twist — it isn't Bigfoot we need to worry about ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

The study findings have been published in Records of the Zoological Survey of India and highlight that it is the first time ...

A survey of Oman's marine waters has revealed over 100 species of ribbon worms (Nemertea), marking the first systematic study ...

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

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

Parasitic worms that infect humans are not interbreeding with those that infect cattle as previously thought. This is good ...

To solve the problem, some species of nematodes have been known to assemble into bridge-like towers, but it’s been seen only ...

Though rare, there are a few examples of animal collectives that link their bodies in creative ways to move around. Ants can ...

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 ...

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