Other large earthworms include the giant Gippsland, with an average length of 3 to 5 feet, though some specimens of about 6.6 feet have been recorded. The Oregon giant earthworm, ...

Earthworms are invasive—and likely hurting insects—in much of North America. Often considered a gardener's best friend, earthworms are harming native species in forests where they don't belong.

While paved surfaces full of wriggling earthworms might come as an inconvenience to a school-aged boy dribbling a basketball or a high-heeled business professional walking on her daily commute, it … ...

Researchers have uncovered fossils of giant predator worms, some of Earth’s earliest carnivorous animals that roamed the seas 518 million years ago.

Nine-Year-Old Finds a Three-Foot-Long Earthworm in His Backyard ... “There are some very large native earthworms known—a meter isn’t beyond the borders of reason,” he tells the publication.

Large, earthen banks fall into the river with the repeated erosion river water creates. An expected increase in river flow for the near future will only enhance the prevalence of small red worms and ...

Earthworms act as ecosystem engineers and over centuries, they have shaped the landscape and changed the soils on the Isle of Rum in Scotland. Here’s how.

Barnaby Domigan, nine, from Christchurch, was photographed with the metre-long earthworm by his dad, Chris, after he found it in a stream outside the family home.

Caecilians look kind of like large earthworms and there are over 124 known species of them. Like all amphibians, they find themselves at home in both water and land.

While a paved surface full of wriggling earthworms might come as an inconvenience to a school-aged boy dribbling a basketball or a high-heeled business professional walking on her daily commute, it… ...

Earthworms act as ecosystem engineers and over centuries, they have shaped the landscape and changed the soils on the Isle of Rum in Scotland. ... Within these trees, colleagues and I found large ...