Earthworms squirm through a clump of dirt. There are quite a few benefits to the worms burrowing into garden soil, including fertilizing plants and letting air circulate through soil. Courtesy of ...

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction.

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

The origin of these so-named surales was somehow attributed to burrowing animals, from worms to termites, but nobody had studied this strange, regularly patterned landscape in detail.

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction.

The actions of these groups of worms benefit each other. For example, the feeding and burrowing of the nightcrawler enriches the soil that the gray worm eats.

Besides a Cozy Home, Burrowing May Have Given Animals an Evolutionary Advantage From evading predators to withstanding natural disasters, animals have been using burrows for over 500 million years.

Most people are aware of earthworms, but probably give them little thought. Some have a notion they are “good for the soil”. Others regard them with distaste and think of slimy animals associated with ...