The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String. In the leaf litter of tropical and ...

The animal world – including some of its ickiest parts – never ceases to amaze. According to researchers in Canada and ...

When it finds one, the velvet worm uses nozzles on either side of its face to shoot jets of sticky slime at its victim. “It happens so fast it’s almost like they’re sneezing,” says Matthew ...

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism. When the time is right, worms gather together to create a wriggling mass, a ...

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there ...

“Rope worms” may simply be shed pieces of intestinal mucus. Mucus can be more common with certain health conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer. While some people be ...

To solve the problem, some species of nematodes have been known to assemble into bridge-like towers, but it’s been seen only ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

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

A man in north Edmond wants his neighbors to know about the type of carnivorous worm he found on his back porch and how to dispose of them properly.