It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

There are lots of uses for a microscope, but using them to get a closer look at small creatures such as insects can be truly startling especially for those that don't seem all that strange in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Mark Kortepeter covers infectious disease and public health topics Unlike the fictional worms in “Star Trek2: Wrath of Khan,” ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — An Austin man knew something was wrong when he fainted in the middle of a soccer game last year. He’d been dealing with awful headaches and “feeling off” but his tumble during soccer ...

Question: The other day while petting my cat, I noticed that she had what appeared to be numerous sesame seeds stuck to the hair underneath her tail. While making this observation, I happened to ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...