Wild Worms Form First-Ever Living Flesh Towers
TL;DR
Scientists in Germany have documented wild nematodes building flesh towers, a behavior previously only observed in labs, which they use for dispersal and interaction with animals, revealing new insights into their collective behavior and ecological roles.
- Worms Caught Building Flesh Towers in the Wild Gizmodo
- These worms stack together to form living towers, new study finds Yahoo
- “We Captured Something No One Had Documented Before”: Wild Worm Towers Seen For The First Time IFLScience
- This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism Scientific American
- Watch 'superorganism' created by tiny worms — the first time it's ever been spotted in the wild Live Science
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