Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The ...

Imagine going to the mirror and finding a small translucent worm crawling across the surface of your eye. The first of many. That's what happened to an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon, who ...

A one millimeter worm is helping scientists rethink what controls the pace of aging. By tracing how its tiny brain senses the ...

Scientists revived a 46,000-year-old worm that was frozen in Siberian permafrost. When they brought it back to life, the worm started having babies. Small worms like this are known to have the ability ...

A strange, new species of ribbon worm, Pararosa vigarae, stretches its body like an accordion, capable of shrinking to ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KXAN) — A Portland woman who found a tiny worm inside her eye discovered she was the first human infected with Thelazia gulosa, an eye worm found mostly in cattle in parts of North ...

They seemingly have no head, while living mostly in the dark and underground. Fifty years ago, we were able to collect a summer’s worth of nightcrawlers for fishing in just a single evening. We once ...

Jena (Germany) It is only about one millimetre long and therefore barely visible with the naked eye. Its brief existence of only two to three weeks is spent hidden in the soil. At first glance, the ...

Rhonda Sherman holds a handful of red wigglers and their castings. This story is part of an occasional series called Dream Jobs profiling North Carolinians with jobs that may be unique, distinctive or ...