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 ...

An international team of scientists has published a single-cell atlas for Pristina leidyi (Pristina), the water nymph worm, a segmented annelid with extraordinary regenerative abilities that has ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...