Red worms, or Eisenia andrei, are another type of worm known as epigeic. They live in the rich top layer of organic matter, above the mineral soil layer inhabited by endogeic earthworms. These little ...

Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds. The ...

An international team of scientists including B. Duygu Özpolat at Washington University in St. Louis has published the first single-cell atlas for Pristina leidyi (Pristina), the water nymph worm, a ...

Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Smithsonian scientists provide worldwide access to some of the museum’s most delicate specimens Raven Capone Benko The National Museum of Natural History safeguards ...

When a single worm was discovered in the depths of our planet's crust, it began an extraordinarily lucky series of events ...

Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest ...

I'm a master gardener and permaculture specialist, so I pay more attention to what's in my soil than most people. You probably don't give much thought to what's really in your topsoil, aside from ...