Thousands of species of nematodes live in your average handful of sand.Jim Baldwin and Manuel Mundo-Ocampo; Mirayana Marcelino Barros; Getty; Insider Sand is host to hundreds of microscopic species ...

Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old parasite, previously thought to be extinct, that has been “living” in the Siberian permafrost. Detailed in a study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists ...

Soybean cyst nematode can easily cause 25% yield loss in infected fields. Nematodes are nearly impossible to see with the naked eye, but their impact on soybean yields is about to come into clear ...

Nematodes with a taste for "insect innards" may offer cranberry growers a natural alternative to fighting hungry crop pests with chemical insecticides. Scientists with the Agricultural Research ...

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A West Indian manatee feeding in Kings Bay, Crystal River, Florida.Credit...Steve De Neef/VW Pic/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images By Ellie Shechet Invisible worms are everywhere. Nematodes are ...

Move over Fido. The next animal to help people by sniffing out cancer could be a microscopic worm. Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are attracted to a compound released by lung cancer cells. When ...