A new study found that dietary fiber can determine whether beneficial intestinal worms help reduce inflammation or become ...

When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long ...

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have transparent, torpedo-shaped bodies, sharp grasping spines near their mouths, ...

A genome sequence and single-cell atlas of a marine worm species point towards bursts of gene emergence, duplication and loss as the drivers of lineage-specific body traits. Usually about one ...

Lately, social media feeds have been crawling with testimonials about “parasite cleanses” and DIY worm detoxes. Many people may be unknowingly infected, influencers on TikTok and Instagram claim, and ...

Two men were left riddled with parasitic worms after they received infected kidney transplants at two U.S. hospitals, a new case report reveals. The two kidneys had come from the same organ donor, who ...

Following weeks of heavy rainfall, hammerhead worms have been reported more frequently throughout Texas. The invasive species is not a direct threat to humans or pets. The worms don't bite but do ...

Many living organisms are able to regenerate damaged or lost tissue, but why some are particularly good at this and others are not is not fully understood. Molecular biologists Alexander Stockinger, ...

When I was a kid, I loved digging soil in my backyard to play. Low and behold I would come across these long, squiggly, boneless, slimy things that first evoked fear and then disgust. My grandfather ...