When handling a hammerhead worm, always wear gloves and never touch the worm directly. Kristian Jaime is the Top Story Reporter for the El Paso Times and is reachable at [email protected].

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 ...

A creepy-crawly invasive species known as the hammerhead worm is reappearing in Texas, following several weeks of excessive rainfall.

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 By Jacek ...

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 towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. “For so long, natural worm towers existed only in our imaginations.” ...

However, the lab-cultivated worms were basically clones of one another, so it’s not clear whether role differentiation occurs more often in nature, where nematode populations could have more ...