News / June 2025

Our new paper, "Towering behavior and collective dispersal in Caenorhabditis nematodes," was published in Current Biology and featured widely in the media.

CNN - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/05/science/nematode-stacking-worms-living-towers

Science - https://www.science.org/content/article/watch-tower-worms-wriggle-single-organism

Scientific American - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-tower-of-worms-is-a-squirming-superorganism/

Geo - https://www.geo.de/natur/tierwelt/wuermer-bauen-tuerme-aus-ihren-leibern---um-sich-transportieren-zu-lassen-35782794.html

Popular Science - https://www.popsci.com/environment/nematode-worm-towers/

IFL Science - https://www.iflscience.com/we-captured-something-no-one-had-documented-before-wild-worm-towers-seen-for-the-first-time-79498

Gizmodo - https://gizmodo.com/wild-worms-build-flesh-towers-and-are-closer-than-you-think-2000611200

New Scientist - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2482950-worms-team-up-to-form-tentacles-when-they-want-to-go-places/

Science Alert - https://www.sciencealert.com/worms-use-their-bodies-to-build-towers-as-a-wild-survival-strategy

Phys.org - https://phys.org/news/2025-06-worms-towers-nature-hitch-habitats.html

Live Science - https://www.livescience.com/animals/watch-superorganism-created-by-tiny-worms-the-first-time-its-ever-been-spotted-in-the-wild

El Pais - https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-06-05/these-tiny-worms-form-living-towers-to-become-super-organism.html

Mental Floss - https://www.mentalfloss.com/animals/invertebrates/nematode-towers