For many years, scientists believed that life in Utah’s Great Salt Lake was extremely limited. Its caustic, hyper-saline ...

Did you know that four out of every five animals are nematodes? But what is a nematode? This animal predates the dinosaurs ...

Scientists have identified a brand-new species of worm living in the Great Salt Lake, marking only the third known animal group able to survive its extreme salinity. The species, named ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown microscopic roundworm living in Utah's Great Salt Lake. Nematode, formally named Diplolaimelloides woaabi, joins brine shrimp and brine flies as the ...

A team of researchers has confirmed the existence of at least one previously unknown nematode in the exceptionally salty lake. Meet Diplolaimelloides woaabi —wo’aabi being an Indigenous word for “worm ...

Tiny soil animals survive harsh desert conditions, revealing hidden life and climate driven survival strategies underground.

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, scientists have now spotted these towers naturally forming in rotting orchard fruit ...

In 2018, a team of scientists led by ecologist Anastasia Shatilovich at the Russian Academy of Sciences published experiments where they dug deep into permafrost near the Kolyma River in northeastern ...

Bridget Hatfield (Technical Services Manager, Kemin Crop Technologies): “Nematodes are incredibly diverse and often very ...

When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain? Neuroscientists now have a more detailed answer to that question than ever before. As with ...