Chicken dinner, anyone? You might want to relish on a plate of chicken biryani only if the meat you ordered for was free from ...

Worms living near Chernboyl (or Chornobyl in the preferred Ukranian spelling) have developed a new 'superpower' - they appear to be immune to radiation. 'Chornobyl was a tragedy of ...

Gardeners using a bird table to feed robins are also warned to ensure the table is regularly cleaned and moved around the ...

Deep in the ocean there are two animals living in unexpected harmony. A small species of scale worm chooses to make its home inside a carnivorous sponge. The sponge could eat the worm, but it doesn't ...

This project will show children how worms turn plant waste into soil, introduce them to 'recycling' and 'useful waste', and encourage them to look closely at worms and other garden wildlife.

After years of studying the genetics and morphology of the long-frozen nematodes, Shatilovich and her colleagues now claim that the reanimated worms are a previously-undescribed species—one from ...

Horsehair worms’ adults are free-living in aquatic freshwater or marine environments and capable of moving across damp terrestrial areas. In the larval stage, these worms must find an arthropod host ...

Not actually a worm at all, our glow-worm is a small beetle of meadows, grassland and hedgerows. Glow-worms live for up to three years as predatory larvae, living under rocks and hidden deep in grassy ...

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A Bengaluru customer found a live worm in his salad ordered from Fresh Menu via Zomato, sparking outrage after the video went viral. The customer shared his experience on Instagram, urging others to ...

Horsehair or gordian worms are long, slender worms related to nematodes. When they are immature, they are parasites of insects, arthropods and other invertebrate animals. They are harmless to people ...