To see if changing the bacteria’s color would have an effect, Dr. Ghosh next put worms on a mutated strain of P. aeruginosa that was beige rather than blue. This time, the worms didn’t move ...

As they neared the end of their life, the tiny worms moved more and more slowly. "Suddenly there appears a sort of ghostly blue fluorescence," Gems tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All ...

elegans can sense and avoid the color blue even though they lack even the most basic light-sensing systems, Veronique Greenwood reports for the New York Times. When the worms forage for microbes ...

If you aren’t one of the 5 million people who’ve watched a 9-second video of a bizarre purple worm vomit a milky living ... “A lot of people think the blue whale is the largest animal ...

Predators that tread on a colony of parchment tube worms may find themselves slimed. When threatened, these ocean creatures exude a sticky mucus that can glow blue for days (SN: 7/28/14).