Preying mantises are vulnerable to horsehair worm parasites, which depend on other animals for their lifecycle needs.

If you need some motivation to keep from eating too much this Thanksgiving, here it is: Doctors in Romania pulled an 11 cm (4 ...

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Robert Hart is a former London-based Forbes senior reporter. Neurosurgeons in Australia this week reported pulling a live, three-inch worm from a woman’s brain, a shocking, world-first discovery that ...

They’re long and skinny. They’re boomerang-headed and coated in toxic mucus. And they’ve been hiding in plain sight in the US for a long time. Invasive hammerhead flatworms have distinctive curved ...

Horsehair worms flood their hosts' minds with proteins made from copied chunks of their own genomes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...