Under the clinical sterility of glassware, life can do some rather curious things. Whether such behaviors are exclusive to laboratory environments or represent a common survival strategy is often a ...

Research out today is the first to document nematodes in the wild amassing into towers, likely as a way to reach new places. Reading time 4 minutes Scientists have just discovered something most of us ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and ...

Nematodes have been spotted forming writhing towers of tiny worms in the wild for the first time, according to a report in the journal Current Biology. The bizarre behavior had previously only been ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and ...

It's the stuff of nightmares: countless worms slithering over each other to form a slimy tower that can move like a single superorganism. And yet researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal ...

For years, scientists have watched nematodes build massive superorganisms in the form of writhing towers. But, they've only seen it happen in the lab. Now, though, researchers write that they've ...

Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, Jim.” An understandably perplexing concept, but one that we can now confirm ...

Natural towers were imaged on a rotting pear in the wild (~ 3 mm, Caenorhabditis sp. 8). Towers wiggle and respond to tactile stimuli for attachment. Worm tower (C. sp. 8) attaching to the passing fly ...

To probe deeper, Perez built a controlled tower using laboratory cultures of C. elegans. When placed on food-free agar with a small vertical post—a toothbrush bristle—hungry worms began to ...

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