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When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

When a daddy longlegs is attacked by a flatworm things get messy

14 June 2018

In the forests of Brazil, pitched gladiatorial contests are being fought between flatworms armed with slime and spider-like arachnids with body-chopping spikes
Fossilised worm holes

Tiny worm burrows may reveal when first complex animals evolved

11 September 2017

Microscopic fossil burrows found in ancient rocks reveal that small worm-like animals existed more than half a billion years ago

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