Vanderbilt biologist Ken Catania has discovered the secret of "worm grunting" -- the Florida practice of driving a wooden stake into the ground and rubbing it with a long piece of steel to produce a ...

Tiny, feisty worms that live off the coast of Japan fight by headbutting each other — and they aren't quiet about it. During these feuds, the worms emit one of the loudest sounds in the ocean, ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Squishy ...

A slimy, carnivorous, toxic, immortal worm sounds like something from a science fiction movie, or out of your nightmares, but it is real. Don't worry though the hammerhead worm is more hype than harm.

A 25-year-old fruit vendor from eastern India was seeing floaters before his eyes. It's a good thing he got himself to a doctor. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of ...

The hammerhead flatworm preys on the ecologically important earthworm and secretes a neurotoxin that can trigger an allergic reaction in humans. Mississippi State University Extension The advisory, in ...