When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

Tubificine worms are segmented worms that are capable of forming entangled blobs that behave as a single organism to adapt to extreme environmental conditions or migrate more efficiently. Individual ...

Looking for answers on our own planet begins with the sandworm’s namesake—the humble earthworm. Before they become dried-out bits of gunk on your driveway, earthworms spend their lives employing one ...

“This is only the 11th time a person has been infected by eye worms in North America, ” explained lead author Richard Bradbury, who is the team lead for the CDC’s Parasite Diagnostics and Biology ...

For Nathalie Feiner, it was just another day in the lab. As part of her work on understanding how the common wall lizard is adapting to a changing climate, the evolutionary biologist was observing one ...

A woman in Japan was found to have a moving black worm living in her left tonsil after she had eaten contaminated sashimi. The worm, Pseudoterranova azarasi, is a type of parasitic worm that normally ...

A new version of the Sober worm wriggled out of its hole early today and set about quickly attacking computers in Europe and the U.S., a security services company said. The worm is a mass-mailer, ...