But they need not have worried. Although it may leave a bad taste in the mouth, scientists have discovered that eating worms is good for you. They greatly reduce the symptoms of inflammatory and ...

Scavenger worms have crawled the Earth for 100 million years. From bone-eating worms that fed off plesiosaurs to today’s mealworms and maggots that feast on decaying organic matter in the backyard, ...

They lay their eggs, which hatch as little worms. Worms can live for up to 10 years. Worms eat their own weight in organic waste, soil and minerals and excrete their own weight in castings daily ...