We’ve all lifted a rock or flowerpot and found a long, slimy worm underneath. But have you ever done so and found a long, slimy worm with a head shaped like a shovel or a hammer? If you have, you ...

They might not be as ferocious as the sandworms from Dune, but hammerhead worms are nothing to sneeze at themselves. They’re toxic. They can carry parasites. They can grow to over a foot long. If they ...

They rank pretty high on the ick factor with their skinny bodies and weird half-moon shaped heads, they're predatory and they are coated with a toxic slime. And they are in East Tennessee. Hammerhead ...

After weeks of heavy rain across North Texas, sightings of a toxic invasive worm are on the rise. The hammerhead worm is popping up in counties throughout the Metroplex and experts say it’s a real ...

After heavy rainfall, sightings of an invasive species have been on the rise in North Texas. Hammerhead worms, named for their distinct hammer-shaped head, are a species of worm endemic to Southeast ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in April 2022. A toxic, predatory invasive worm capable of unlimited self-cloning has arrived in Maine. The first sightings were reported in fall ...

They're technically not 'worms' as we know it, but rather, planarians. The hammerheads were most likely introduced to the U.S. in 1891 and thought to have come from southeast Asia. The first reports ...

"Like some horror movie, they can regenerate/reproduce from pieces." ...

WASHINGTON — Earthworms, as we know, are garden champions, cleaning the soil by eating their weight in organic matter every day and aerating it as they wriggle around, creating tunnels to ease root ...