Watch where you step! April showers bring May flowers, but spring rains typically resurface a more immediate creature that will help your plants bloom. That's right, we're talking about the earthworm.

The eerie painting depicts an image few of us would want to see in the mirror, let alone casting a shadow across our own field of vision: a pale, segmented worm slithering across an unblinking eyeball ...

Most of us are familiar with the segmented worms we see on sidewalks after a rain, in compost piles, or at the end of a fishhook. But there are other worms out there, and they get a lot bigger than a ...