The flesh-eating fly larvae, which have been detected in Mexico, were declared eradicated from Texas in the 1960s.

Faith No More's Bill Gould looks back on the making of We Care A Lot, his band's thrillingly unhinged debut album, now celebrating its 40th birthday ...

You’re not likely to witness a horsehair worm making its exit from a praying mantis, but if you do, it’s quite a sight. The ...

Watching a snake poop may not be everyone’s idea of fun, but it can tell us a lot about snake digestion, which is a fascinating subject. In this extraordinary Instagram post, a snake is taking a poop, ...

That creature making a squirming getaway into the swampy vegetation by my feet is one of the oddest and most overlooked of all amphibians. Say ‘amphibian’ and most folk think of frogs, toads and ...

Researchers at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, have developed a novel method to study how tiny worms navigate mechanically complex environments such as soil. Published ...

Bengaluru: Scientists at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bengaluru have built a new setup that mimics soil to watch how small worms change the way they move when the ground ...

Threadworms are very common affecting nearly half of all children under 10 and often adults in the same family at some time. Because threadworm infection usually causes no symptoms in most children ...

Earthworms don't stop shaping soil processes when they die. A new study shows they can still help store carbon in the soil, even after death. "This is quite surprising," says lead author Tullia ...

Physics can get real strange on the microscopic level. For tiny creatures living on this scale, these eccentricities are what allow them to thrive despite their size—including a worm that researchers ...

Scientists have known for decades that many animals use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. It's less clear how they do it. A new study suggests earthworms may be a good way to figure it out.