The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. This is also the first time that scientists have formally ...

(CNN) — Nature seems to offer an escape from the hustle and bustle of city life, but the world at your feet may tell another story. Even in the shade of a fruit tree, you could be surrounded by tiny ...

Scientists have discovered that nematodes, tiny roundworms, can form coordinated living towers to hitch rides with passing insects during times of food scarcity. Researchers from the Max Planck ...

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 behave like one single organism. They then ...

When food runs out, certain tiny roundworms, barely visible to the naked eye, crawl toward one another and build living, wriggling towers that move as one superorganism. For the first time, we’ve ...

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 ...

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 ...

The star of this picture isn't the fruit fly, it's the columns of thousands of nematodes on the right working together to catch a lift. CREDIT: Perez et al. (2025) Current Biology. Get the Popular ...

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