Earth's oceans cover more than 70 percent of our planet's surface. That is a lot of room for species to exist, often without ...

Researcher Brad Herrick holds a handful of invasive jumping worms in Madison, Wisconsin. Herrick says the University of ...

Parasitic nematodes (commonly known as roundworms) are a large, diverse and poorly studied group of disease-causing organisms that severely impact the health of humans and animals. They infect almost ...

Dalhousiella yabukii, a newly identified polychaete worm, lives inside the glassy chambers of a deep-sea sponge off Japan.

An invasive worm is destroying forest floors and gardens across the country. Once jumping worms get into the soil, they're ...

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Some outdoor recreation rules may seem odd at first, but they're part of a sprawling effort to curb the spread of destructive ...

Over the course of 13 expeditions and other efforts between mid-2025 and mid-2026, scientists found hundreds of previously ...

A U.S. Forest Service researcher says the so-called jumping worms “can flip themselves a foot off the ground.” ...

The Ocean Census project says scientists have discovered 1,121 previously unknown species in a single year. The rush is on to save them as risks to the world’s oceans multiply ...

Invasive Asian worms not only jump a foot in the air, creeping us out, but they gorge on organic soil nutrients, leaving ...

June kicks off an active period for garden pests. Learn more about five common garden pests that arrive in June and how to get rid of them naturally.