A teenager from Australia had flesh-eating bacteria living in her body for six years without knowing exactly what was happening to her. Carly Goff became sick after she and her family’s trip to Fiji ...

Parasites do very well for themselves, which is why they are so common in the animal kingdom. Geoffrey Read, CC BY If you’re an oyster lover, seeing a shaggy worm slither across your appetizer is ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Rope worms” may simply be shed pieces of intestinal mucus. Mucus can be more common with certain health conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer. While some people believe ...

We're way behind several species when it comes to regeneration, and scientists are keen to discover the secrets of these ...

The keys to extending life are in the details. Tiny tails at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres erode with age but can be lengthened. Deep inside our cells DNA-based clocks slowly tick away and ...

In one of the strangest paths to reproduction, this tiny Japanese sea worm actually grows a ‘mini-me’ at its rear end, which it then deploys so it can swim off on its own in search of similar ...

Tiny worms can "see" light without their eyes — or their heads, scientists recently discovered. Planarians are a type of flatworm, which are soft-bodied creatures that lack complex organs. They have ...