Schistosomiasis is a worm infection that can be picked up in warm freshwater. You could be swimming, washing yourself, or ...

Wirm furnishes you with the full powers of a limbless invertebrate. Your peristaltic locomotion allows you to crawl over most ...

White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to ...

We're way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these other animals so we can learn from them – including, in a new study, the marine ...

If a worm was trying to burrow into your skin, you'd be forgiven for thinking you'd feel it gnawing at your flesh—but scientists have identified how one wriggling parasite does so without you noticing ...

Can I get a “brain worm” from eating undercooked meat? There’s little I find more terrifying than the idea of something living and crawling around inside me. Based on the number of sci-fi movies ...

Saturday Night Live spoofed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incredible revelation that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head. Kennedy claimed in a 2012 deposition that doctors found a ...