The vital tasks carried out by tiny "engineers" like earthworms that recycle waste and bees that pollinate crops are under threat because one fifth of the world's spineless creatures may be at risk of ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker through a few breeding seasons and vanish. Then a single lab animal, known ...

Scientists of the Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (PIBOC) of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS) and the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) found out ...

Maeva Perez is fascinated by marine worms. Her first encounter with these cold-blooded invertebrates dates back to her time at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, where she was completing ...

The invasive jumping worm will thrash and snap its body when touched. University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum The highly invasive jumping worm, a genus introduced from eastern Asia, now writhes ...

Just when you think you’ve become accustomed to the spotted lanternfly invasion, along comes another menace to the ecosystem: the jumping worm. Allow me to introduce you to Amynthas agrestis, also ...

Frank Herbert’s science fiction novel Dune has been praised for its worldbuilding. Herbert created complex societies, religions and economic systems all with rich histories. Most famous of Herbert’s ...

Let the worm-on-worm violence commence! Everyone's favourite invertebrates are back in Worms 4: Mayhem and it's out today for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC! You can also sample the worms of mass ...

Not to toot my own horn, but I know a thing or two about bizarre animals. And I can tell you without a hint of doubt that the bobbit worm is by far the most bizarre. Growing to 10 feet long, the worm ...

Worms never stay down for long. They just come back with bigger weapons. Team17 is set to keep the tradition of their fan-favorite franchise alive with the announcement of Worms 2020 in a recently ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the ...