A two-foot-long sausage-shaped worm that kills with a touch or electric discharge may sound like science fiction, but tales of this urban legend have persisted for nearly a century in Mongolia's Gobi ...

Research reveals that for C. elegans worms, the presence of dead members of their species has profound behavioral and physiological effects, leading them to more quickly reproduce and shortening their ...

The mere presence of a dead counterpart elicits strong responses across species. For example, many insects such as bees and ants will instinctively remove dead members from the hive, seemingly to keep ...