In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have observed nematodes, tiny worms, forming 'living towers' in natural settings ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

A team of scientists studying nematodes has recorded unusual behavior that has never been seen before in nature ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big ...

This type of non-random, coordinated movement in which multiple individuals ... “For so long natural worm towers existed only in our imaginations. But with the right equipment and lots of ...

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals ...

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there ...

The worm tower behaves like a superorganism. 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 ...

New research reveals that nematodes naturally build living worm towers in the wild, offering fresh insights into collective ...

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to ...

For instance, a tower can extend out to a nearby surface and form a bridge, allowing worms to move across gaps far wider than any individual worm could manage. The towers also grab hold of objects ...