With so many different species of worms out there, it isn’t too common to find a new one, but that is exactly what happened recently. Dr. Aida Verdes of the National Museum of Natural Sciences found a ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Study finds that the pace of evolution in organisms differs depending on the type of cells involved. A new study finds that two species of worms have maintained strikingly similar patterns of gene ...

Last spring a buddy went kayak fishing at Black Bass Lake, a picturesque little reservoir in the heart of Eureka Springs.

Invasive hammerhead worms are spreading in Texas, and have been spotted in Houston, Dallas, Austin and toward the coast.

To see if other kinds of worms could also form such a “superorganism”, researchers created conditions to coach the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans into assembling into similar structures.

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

“It may be doubted,” Darwin wrote, “if there are any other animals which have played such an important part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.” ...

A parasitic worm that lives on the eggs of female blue crabs might actually help scientists and fishery managers protect this ...

“The frilled or silver nudibranch Leminda millecra is found only on the South and East coast of South Africa and has produced compounds that fight oesophagal cancer. Sponges from Sodwana, the ...

The microscopic worms are one of only a few species known to assemble into “superorganisms” that act and move collectively.