Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...

A snake has no eyelids, so cannot blink. Its eyes are protected by a fixed type of scale that acts like a contact lens to keep out dust and prevent damage from scratching. Consequently, it sleeps with ...

The presence of slow worms in your compost or garden is a positive sign, as a recent Reddit post in the r/GardeningUK subreddit recognized. "I'm happy to know they're around," the OP said, and that's ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to ...

How can we explain the new and simultaneous presence of worms, notoriously slow animals, in gardens distant from each other ...