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“The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.” — Gary Larson Have you considered raising worms? While not a usual ...

Scientists studying aging found that sensory inputs like touch and smell can cancel out the lifespan-boosting effects of dietary restriction by suppressing the key longevity gene fmo-2. When ...

On a walk past one of my garden beds after a nice rain, I noticed a hair from a horse’s tail tangled in one of my plants. That wouldn’t be surprising since chipping sparrows had been observed flying ...

More than 20,000 years ago, a major ice age spread across the northern latitudes of North America, Europe and Asia and all the earthworms died. For millennia, these regions had no earthworms. But fast ...

There has been a lot of press of late concerning an invasive earthworm from Asia now found in 15 states in the Midwest and in Nova Scotia. These earthworms, known as jumping worms, look like “regular” ...