The animal world – including some of its ickiest parts – never ceases to amaze. According to researchers in Canada and Singapore, velvet worm slime contains an ingredient that could revolutionize the ...

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism. When the time is right, worms gather together to create a wriggling mass, a tower of worm-ness. No, really. They climb onto each other until their bodies ...

June 12 (UPI) -- Researchers have developed a robotic skin that can give robots a similar feeling to human touch. Researchers ...

Scientists have developed a low-cost, durable, highly sensitive robotic "skin" that can be added to robotic hands like a glove, enabling robots to detect information about their surroundings in a way ...

Succulents form a similar texture barrier with their waxiness and, with some varieties, spikiness. They are also ver ...

Of all the flora and fauna in the region, snails are not one I think about very often. On hikes, they fall into the “just” ...

Of all the flora and fauna in the region, snails are not one I think about very often. On hikes, they fall into the “just” ...

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

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

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

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

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