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Endogeic earthworms are among the creatures that can be permanently displaced by over-managed soils, as when you rotovate or dig over the ground, you destroy their carefully built habitat. Plus, you ...

The bobbit worm is a fearsome marine predator that burrows into the sand and waits for unsuspecting prey. The worm uses its ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested than at present. In the ...

I first learned about ‘in situ’ worm communities several years ago in fruit orchards. Farmers were using a combination of in-orchard and in-ground vermiculture (cultivating/farming of worms) and ...