Enduring spinning forces that would kill a human being, tiny worms are being observed by a student-designed video system in NASA studies seeking to explore how life adapts to gravity beyond Earth.

500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. Basically all life lived in the water, which held a lot of animals that looked pretty different from the ones we recognize today. One of ...

Caenorhabditis elegans would make an ace fighter pilot. That’s because the roughly one-millimeter-long roundworm, a type of nematode that is widely used in biological studies, is remarkably adept at ...

Animals that seem identical may belong to completely different species. This is the conclusion of researchers in Sweden who have used DNA analyses to discover that one of our most common segmented ...

Smithsonian marine scientist Brett Gonzalez spent 10 days exploring the flooded caves of the Turks and Caicos in search of a rare predatory scale worm. Raven Capone Benko Staring into the mouth of ...

This worm, Pontoscolex corethrurus, grows to a length of 4 inches and can incredibly withstand the stressors of living in soil abutting a volcano, with high temperatures, volcanic gases and low oxygen ...

The last method is called the plastic bag method. You need a small plastic bag like a zip lock. You place the bag in the ...

Researchers have found that geosmin is made by certain kinds of bacteria that are known toxin producers. This acts as a warning to C. elegans, a common type of worm, that the bacteria they are about ...

Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest ...

500 million years ago, the world was a very different place. During this period of time, known as the Cambrian period, basically all life was in... Ancient predatory worms have scientists rethinking ...