JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri Department of Conservation warns residents to watch for an invasive worm.While the hammerhead ...

Hammerhead worms, an invasive species from Asia, are a toxic menace — but chopping them up can do more harm than good.

deadly to our beloved earthworms and nearly impossible to kill: Allow me to introduce you to the hammerhead worm. As its name would imply, the narrow, snakelike flatworm has a head built like that ...

It’s an animal that could be the stuff of nightmares. A worm that slithers like a snake and has the head of a shark and the ...

It’s an animal that could be the stuff of nightmares. A worm that slithers like a snake and has the head of a shark and the ...

A worm that slithers like a snake and has the head of a shark and the Missouri Department of Conservation is warning residents to keep an eye out for them. The hammerhead worm is showing up more ...

Many of us think of earthworms as helpful garden assistants, mixing soil and providing nutrients for our plants. But forests in Minnesota and other parts of North America, where glaciers wiped out ...

Earthworms may be helpful in a compost heap or in the soil of a vegetable garden. But they are a destructive force in Minnesota’s hardwood forests – chomping up entire layers of the forest ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new-to-science hammerhead species, the shovelhead shark, has been hiding in plain sight for three centuries due to its close resemblance to a ...

VENGEFUL locals have killed a hammerhead and bludgeoned another apex predator with a club as part of a war on sharks. Vigilante fishermen have been going out to sea to slay any sharks they come ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long, has just 959 cells. The worm’s simplicity has made it a mainstay of scientific research.Credit... Supported by By Teddy Rosenbluth When scientists ...