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Welcome to the world's largest earthworm! Let us find out more about this seemingly small creatures, that hugely benefit our ecosystems.
Concerns have been raised after a recent workshop recording earthworms at a site in Co Down found a low number in the soil, with the killer invasive ‘New Zealand’ flatworm species believed to ...
This week's full worm moon will come with a special treat – a total lunar eclipse, which will turn the moon a blood red color.
Earthworms are not native to Minnesota and they are damaging forests. Anglers inadvertently helped their spread.
Tens of thousands of species of earthworms are likely to be wriggling in the world’s soil, yet to be discovered by scientists – which will probably take more than 100 years to do. Earthworms ...
Daniel Dae Kim as the playwright David Henry Hwang’s stand-in in a revival of the play “Yellow Face” at the Todd Haimes Theater in Manhattan. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times ...
For the most part, earthworms go unnoticed in our day-to-day lives. Typically, we only see them when they are struggling for life on the driveway or sidewalk after a rain. They ended up in these ...
Earthworms act as ecosystem engineers and over centuries, they have shaped the landscape and changed the soils on the Isle of Rum in Scotland. Here’s how.
Charles Darwin liked an earthworm. What earthworms felt about Charles Darwin is less clear. For 40 years he studied them, thought about them and experimented on them. He exhaled on them to see if ...
With changes in climate happening and predicted to worsen, earthworms face an uncertain future. This should concern everyone—our future is interlocked with that of earthworms.
These earthworms “actually are looking for a new burrow and/or a mate,” he wrote. But to the untrained eye, picking apart non-native and native earthworms generally is no straightforward task.