Imagine walking through a lush, green forest, sunlight dancing on the scales of a basking lizard. Nearby, a turtle glides ...

A reshuffling of the animal kingdom may be necessary in light of new genetic findings -- not to lions, tigers or bears, but worms, a recent study suggests.

Instead, this flagella-waving oddball stands as the first member of its own “supra-kingdom” group, which probably peeled away from the other big branches of life at least a billion years ago.

In Animal Kingdom, Size Matters. March 18, 2005 / 12:47 PM EST / AP ... a British scientific journal, and Biology of Reproduction, an American publication. ...