A trove of fossils, including a penis worm with a spiked, invertible throat, suggests this spot may have been a cradle of Cambrian evolution.

Surgeons found a 3-inch-long parasitic worm known as Ophidascaris robertsi. CDC Doctors aren’t sure how a parasite of snakes found its way into the woman’s body.

Guinea worm may be close to joining that list, experts say. ... The parasitic worm can cause debilitating pain and complications, disrupting lives and carrying a significant financial burden.

Yes, it’s possible to have a worm living in your brain — in fact, it’s far more common than you might think, said Dr. David Hamer, a professor of global health and medicine at the Boston ...

Worm people like Cohen are quick to tell you that no fewer than four Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work on C. elegans, which was the first animal to have both its genome sequenced and its ...

The worm’s exit is so agonizing that it prevent kids from going to school and adults from farming, cooking and collecting firewood. Ridding the body of the parasite takes weeks.

But despite his disgust and hatred for the Bobbit worm, Arndt couldn’t help but marvel at it. The worm was now living in a small tank populated by several 3-4-inch rocks — a serious downgrade from its ...

The worm blobs look like dark-red sea anemones wriggling in the stream bed. The individual worms are around one-inch long, thin as pencil lead, and live off the bacteria in the cave, which in turn ...

Worm-friendly species like bullheads, brown trout, and walleyes tend to be productive feeders in low visibility. And unlike mirror-sided shiners, worms present these predators with a dark, solid ...

The next full moon after the worm moon is the pink moon, which will peak April 12, 2025. A "blood moon" total lunar eclipse will occur late Thursday, astronomers say. Here's everything you need to ...

To counter that effort, the worm’s creators upped the challenge. When a new iteration of the malware, Conficker C, arrived in late February 2009, it increased the number of new daily web ...