Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long, has just 959 cells. The worm’s simplicity has made it a mainstay of scientific research.Credit... Supported by By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists ...

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A deep-sea submersible found worms and snails living in cavities below the sea floor — the first time animals have been discovered in such habitats. The creatures may have been pushed into their ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge near the Galápagos Islands. Giant worms ...

But you might still be in for a scare. The animal's flesh can be riddled with encased worm larvae, which, upon being eaten, will gladly reproduce in your innards and let their offspring roam the ...

Worms the Board Game does a remarkably good job taking all the silly weapons, explosive barrels, destructible terrain, and disastrous chain reactions that made the classic multiplayer videogame so ...

After a 1988 algal bloom decimated snails in Sweden’s Koster archipelago, researchers reintroduced Crab snails and observed fast evolutionary adaptations. (Swedish L. saxatilis marine snails.) Credit: ...

Now, scientists say that viruses carried by these worms may be one reason they cause such severe illness. In a recent study, published in September in the journal Nature Microbiology, the ...