When the time is right, worms gather together to create a wriggling mass, a tower of worm-ness. No, really. They climb onto each other until their bodies behave like one single organism. They then ...

The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology. Get the Popular ...

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Under the clinical sterility of glassware, life can do some rather curious things. Whether such behaviors are exclusive to laboratory environments or represent a common survival strategy is often a ...

Nematodes have been spotted forming writhing towers of tiny worms in the wild for the first time, according to a report in the journal Current Biology. The bizarre behavior had previously only been ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and ...

Research out today is the first to document nematodes in the wild amassing into towers, likely as a way to reach new places. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes Scientists have just discovered ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

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