Giant earthworms that can grow to be as long as three feet are likely responsible for strange mounds of soil found in the wetlands of Venezuela and Colombia, scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE.

Earthworms are vital for soil health, enriching and aerating earth while breaking down organic matter. With 6,000 species ...

IN the last issue of NATURE (p. 394) I observe in an article upon Megascolides australis that a supposition is expressed that very large earthworms will be found to occur in South America as well ...

Invasive jumping worms found in at least 34 states 01:53. As you tend to your garden this summer, there's a creepy, crawly creature to be on the lookout for: an invasive worm that moves like a ...

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 ...

They informed me that earthworms were not native to the northern third of North America — they had all been exterminated thousands of years ago by the ice sheets of the last ice age. ... Scuffing this ...

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 ...