As the researchers report in Genes & Development (13, 511–515, 1999), the silk glands (see inset) and fiber from the worms containing the fusion gene glowed green. A major advantage of this ...

The Wollemi National Park, some two and a half hours from Sydney, is home to a 3.7-mile abandoned railway tunnel where ...

Despite their name, glow-worms aren't worms at all: they're beetles. They use their bioluminescent bodies to communicate with other beetles, in an attempt to attract a mate. The ocean is well known ...

This glowworm is technically a "fungus gnat," and while a single specimen doesn't look like much under a microscope, a colony of glow worms spread across a dark rock-face looks downright galactic.

Some people pay to witness glow-worms' breeding season in June and July. It’s late at night on the South Downs as a group of ardent wildlife spotters gather round a pair of glow-worms appearing ...

I wish I could show you pictures of the glow worms. When we found them ... to switch off all our torches to see them glowing in the dark like a thousand blue Christmas lights.