Condensins are conserved protein complexes that play integral roles in chromosome dynamics during mitosis and meiosis. Caenorhabditis elegans has been thought to be unusual in that it appeared to lack a typical condensin I complex. However, recent biochemical excavating in the nematode has unearthed the \'missing\' condensin I complex as well as the worm homologs of long-lost canonical condensin subunits.