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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...