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

A team of scientists studying nematodes has recorded unusual behavior that has never been seen before in nature ...

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to ...

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature ...

Research out today is the first to document nematodes in the wild amassing into towers, likely as a way to reach new places.

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these multi-nematode ...

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

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the ...