It looks like a worm and moves like a worm -- sort of. But it is a previously unidentified microscopic species of mite that was discovered by a graduate student on The Ohio State University campus.

Sometimes, nature just doesn’t know what it wants to be. There’s no greater example of that than the worm lizards, and a brand-new species of these has just been identified in a mountainous ...

Most cross-species mating is merely unsuccessful in producing offspring. However, when researchers mated Caenorhabditis worms of different species, they found that the lifespan of the female worms ...

They’re “gross and slimy and flaccid and wiggling.” But parasites can be just as important as more charismatic animals—and many may be on the verge of disappearing.

It looks like a worm and moves like a worm -- sort of. But it is a previously unidentified microscopic species of mite that was discovered by a graduate student on the Ohio State University campus.

In order to test levels, technicians have to make a blood smear on a glass slide, stain the sample to highlight the worms and manually count them under a microscope.

When the scientists looked at the specimens under a microscope and photographed them with a high-resolution digital camera, they noticed the new sea worm.

A Panagrolaimus kolymaensis nematode is seen under the microscope at the University of Cologne's worm lab in Germany.

A newfound species of fungus gnat is behind Alaska's "snake worm" mystery, in which thousands of fly larvae moved together in the shape of a snake.

A research team from Skoltech, the Institute of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Problems of Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and other scientific organizations in Russia and the ...

Researchers have designed a new computer program to identify each nerve cell in high-definition fluorescent microscope images of living worms.