According to a classic definition of species, two animals belong to the same species if they can make babies that can eventually go on to make their own. Sometimes different species get it on and ...

Killer sperm in nematode worms prevent cross-breeding between different species, according to a new study. Nematodes are a diverse phylum of animals, with tubular digestive systems at each end.

Andrew Ference may be hockey's most well-known environmentalist, but he's hardly the only guy in the game looking to do his part for the earth. And sure, he's restoring the Brazil's Atlantic forest ...

COMPTON, CALIF. -- On the fringe of Compton's manufacturing zone lies a row of boarded-up homes that shelter not humans but a billion-bug-and-worm breeding enterprise. It's nicknamed "Worm City," and ...

Operating out of a Granada Hills mansion with a geodesic dome and purple glass ceilings, an eccentric entrepreneur two decades ago led a worm mania that some later criticized as a pyramid scheme. Amid ...

Biologists used to assume that ribbon worms were short-lived, fragile creatures, the kind of invertebrates that flicker ...

With the type of storm Debby was (is), I think of a few things right away that should be done in the aftermath of the major rain event. Army worms, mosquitoes, fire ants, fertilizer, fungus, and for ...

The European nightcrawler's scientific name is Eisenia hortensis, but it also goes by blue worm, super red and giant redworm, among others. These worms can grow to between 3 and 8 inches in length, ...

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