Like Deadpool, three-banded panther worms are able to regenerate body parts on their own. Even their heads. Now, a team of scientists from Harvard has genetically altered the unique worms so they glow ...

A mysterious glowing worm has been discovered lighting up the soil in the Peruvian rainforest. The strange glow worms, which are thought to be the larval stage of an as-yet-unidentified species of ...

Nights on Earth are getting brighter with the spread of human light pollution, reducing humankind’s visibility of the cosmos. But the brightening night is also messing with glow-worms, spunky insects ...

According to a new study published in Developmental Cell, researchers are employing transgenesis methods to introduce a gene into the three-banded panther worm’s genome. The result? Glow-in-the-dark ...

The BDA Glow Worm Society arose out of a joke. A few years ago, boat pilot and diver Chris Gauntlett posted a question on social media, asking when the glow worms would be out. Every month during the ...

Female glow worms are famous for emitting a green-orange light from their bottoms at night A wildlife trust is calling on members of the public to help it track glow worms, as part of a project to ...

Bringing to life spectacles of natural wonder on our doorstep A Glow Worm isn’t in fact a worm at all, but is the common name for insect larvae and adult larviform females which glow. Specialised ...