The species are not dangerous to household pets. If a dog or cat eats one of the worms, they will likely "get nauseous and throw it up, but there is no long-term threat. With their sticky bodies ...

I decided that I, too, needed to attend the Longwood Area Worm Meeting. Thus began a trip into the world of C. elegans worms and the people who love them. In 25 years as a writer in Boston, I’ve ...

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 ...

The worms were equally mobile, and none appeared to have an advantage over others in becoming the head of the tower (i.e. the part that most benefits from this behavior).

This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

Living towers: A closer look To find out what was motivating the nematodes’ building behavior, the study team tested the worms’ reactions to being poked, prodded and even visited by a fly ...

Worm tower (C. sp. 8) attaching to the passing fly and traveling on the vector until it reaches the next substrate and detaches. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology.

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and ...

The jumping worms reproduce faster than the other worms, and they don’t need a mate to do so. They reproduce asexually. “Once you have one, you potentially have many,” Bethke said.

The microscopic worms are one of only a few species known to assemble into “superorganisms” that act and move collectively.

Living towers: A closer look To find out what was motivating the nematodes’ building behavior, the study team tested the worms’ reactions to being poked, prodded and even visited by a fly ...