Tubificine worms are segmented worms that are capable of forming entangled blobs that behave as a single organism to adapt to extreme environmental conditions or migrate more efficiently. Individual ...

Looking for answers on our own planet begins with the sandworm’s namesake—the humble earthworm. Before they become dried-out bits of gunk on your driveway, earthworms spend their lives employing one ...

A woman in Japan was found to have a moving black worm living in her left tonsil after she had eaten contaminated sashimi. The worm, Pseudoterranova azarasi, is a type of parasitic worm that normally ...

The early bird gets the worm — but you have to be even earlier to wrangle the jumping worm. Experts are warning gardening enthusiasts to look out for jumping worms this summer, as the species is known ...

In a rare and alarming medical case from rural India, a 35-year-old man visited an ophthalmologist due to blurry vision, only to discover a live parasitic worm moving inside his eye. The unusual case, ...

CANBERRA, Australia — A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was ...

MINNEAPOLIS – Last week, the National Weather Service issued a "worm warning" in southern Minnesota. The warning was in jest – simply a heads up that residents may see more worms than normal due to ...

A new version of the Sober worm wriggled out of its hole early today and set about quickly attacking computers in Europe and the U.S., a security services company said. The worm is a mass-mailer, ...

Q: I discovered a worm while weeding the other day. It caught my eye because it moved very fast like a snake and when I picked it up it leaped out of my hand and I had to chase it down to catch it. I ...