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In doing so, Paralvinella hessleri, a tiny deep-sea worm first discovered in 1989, transforms one of the deadliest substances ...

Kids compete in the 2009 international worm races in Clearlake to see whose worm will come out on top. Lori Peters-Herren If you don’t mind your hands getting a bit dirty, head to Clearlake with some ...

Two years into an experiment in dairy manure handling, the worms are proving their worth. A $483,950 federal grant helped pay for a system where these creatures break down most of the nitrogen in ...

Experts are spreading the word about a homemade source of garden fertilizer: Worm poop. The Master Gardeners of Stanislaus County held a class on making vermicompost, as the stuff is called. It ...

Martin Martinez of Fresno isn’t going to eat wild cod anytime soon, he said, especially after spotting a thin, dark-colored worm squirming in a package of fish he almost bought at Costco on West Shaw ...

A worm composter, or wormery, can turn your kitchen food scraps into fantastic fertiliser for your house plants and garden. Compact, smell-free and faster than normal composting, a wormery harnesses ...