The microscopic roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans, might be Earth's secret superhero. These tube-shaped creatures, which thrive on rotting vegetation, may seem unremarkable at first glance. But this ...

Eyeless roundworms may have hacked other cellular warning systems to give themselves a form of color vision. By Veronique Greenwood In the warm, fetid environs of a compost heap, tiny roundworms feast ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The light honey-colored worm, marked by a darker collar and up to five stripes, may look harmless, but it poses a serious threat ...

Orpiment is a bright golden pigment adored by Renaissance painters. It also happens to be deeply toxic. Despite its toxicity, the substance is key to the survival of a particularly hardy species of ...

Worms that inhabit hydrothermal vents combine environmental arsenic and sulfide to form a nontoxic mineral to survive in a harsh environment. Unlike this vibrant worm, most other deep-sea denizens ...

The light honey-colored worm, marked by a darker collar and up to five stripes, may look harmless, but it poses a serious threat to native Texas species. The invasive species known as the hammerhead ...