It was long believed that the Dracunculus medinensis parasite, which causes guinea worm disease in humans, has a fairly simple life cycle: A person drinks water contaminated with copepods, or water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File ...

As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was studying evolutionary biology, and I got caught up in the idea of organisms that made their world out of other organisms. I was ...

A group of scientists who set out to study sex pheromones in a tiny worm found that the same family of pheromones also controls a stage in the worms' life cycle, the long-lived dauer larva. The ...

Usually what Beth Mole writes is very clear. But this time I could not tell whether the whole human-eye part of the worm life cycle occurs between the lid and the eyeball, or whether the parasite ...

Some people call it a crazy worm. Some call it an Alabama jumper, although it’s not contained to that state. It’s Amynthas agrestis, one of three main species of earthworm native to southeast Asia ...

To many parasitic worms, we are the world. And the way they've evolved to live within us — without wiping us out — is stunning. As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was ...