The Costa Rican short documentary Shadow Dwellers was selected to compete in the fifth edition of the Santiago Wild 2025 Film ...

Scientists have discovered that starving and then refeeding worms can reveal surprising secrets about aging. When a specific ...

As far as I know, Charles Darwin never played in a band, but he still got famous. What many people don’t know is that he was mainly famous for his book about earthworms.

Worms offer a simple yet powerful whole-organism model for studying senescence, mirroring mammalian aging processes and ...

Antarctic scale worms, particularly the species Eulagisca gigantea, are deep-sea predators known for their alien-like ...

Senescent cells, which are damaged and inflammatory, contribute significantly to aging. Researchers at the Max Planck ...

Two species of worms, separated by 20 million years of evolution, have been found to activate their genes in nearly identical ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds.

While hammerhead worms tend to stay out of the sunlight, hidden from plain sight, the extra rain has "flushed out" the wriggly creatures, Ashley Morgan-Olvera, Texas Invasive Species Institute ...

Along the way, these unassuming worms have become itty-bitty ambassadors for basic science and the tinkerer types who practice it. Now, though, the future of worm-informed breakthroughs is at risk.