Hammerhead worms feed primarily on earthworms. With few natural predators, hammerhead worms are able to entirely wipe out ...

White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a team of UC Davis researchers tracked the movement of fluorescent particles inside ...

A new study shows how nematode worms freeze when trapped by fungi, using a sleep circuit repurposed as a survival mechanism.

When the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans gets caught by its fungal predator Arthrobotrys oligospora, it doesn't just ...

While visiting a forest trail in southern Chile, hikers noticed a “giant” worm in the process of preying on and eating an ...

The 500-million-year-old fossil, containing a species named in honor of the krayt dragons in Star Wars, is a much larger ancestor of phallic marine worms that can be found on the seabed today.

Researchers are working on manipulating the digestive systems of wax worms to create a scalable way of disposing of plastic.

In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, and the pupil was dilated and fixed. The man's vision in the eye ...

A deep-sea worm survives in toxic conditions around hydrothermal vents by converting arsenic and sulfur into a benign mineral ...