A German research team recently discovered what they thought were five distinct species of nematode worms on account of significant facial differences. But it turns out they’re a single species of ...

They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...

Sometimes they're just annoying. Sometimes, well, you have to chuckle. I understand the pressures of calling in a big story on deadline. As a young reporter without a portable computing device, I ...

Iowa's spring hasn't exactly been conducive to planting this year. Our Gazette outdoor editor, Orlan Love, noted that he has nothing planted so far. "I can't remember a spring when I did not have ...

Buddy the mouth worm may have died in 2012, but today the little guy is a YouTube star. The wriggler that a biology professor at the College of William and Mary extracted one dark December night from ...

Imagine a meter long worm with 12 stubby legs and matching sets of flaps running down the body. On the head is a large pair of spiny appendages used for grasping prey that transport victims into a ...

You think you know horror? You know nothing. You might assume – upon glimpsing its ghastly, four-pronged, pharyngeal maw – that the blood worm is a carnivorous animal, and you would be right. But this ...

An essential rite of passage for many an otherwise nonviolent child involves cutting an earthworm down the middle and watching as the two halves squirm. One half — the one with the brain — will ...