Scientists have uncovered fossils detailing a new huge predatory worm species thought to have hunted in the Earth’s water column more than 518 million years ago. Researchers from the University of ...

The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology. Get the Popular ...

Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The researchers suspect that these marine worms may ...

In one of the strangest paths to reproduction, this tiny Japanese sea worm actually grows a ‘mini-me’ at its rear end, which it then deploys so it can swim off on its own in search of similar ...

The statement that "human-level artificial intelligence is the last invention mankind need ever make" has been much bandied about of late. It implies that once we have invented something as smart as ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...

A new study finds that exposure to chronic radiation from Chornobyl has not damaged the genomes of microscopic worms living there today -- which doesn't mean that the region is safe, the scientists ...

For those battling chronic inflammatory diseases, effective and sustainable treatments remain elusive. Now, scientists are exploring symbiont chemistry as an unconventional but promising source of ...

When photos of a strange worm began circulating on Facebook, people assumed it was another deep-sea hoax. But the creature is real. Meet ...

According to research published last year, the disappearance of the bone-eating, deep-sea zombie worm could be the result of ...