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 ...

You’re not likely to witness a horsehair worm making its exit from a praying mantis, but if you do, it’s quite a sight. The spaghetti-like worm, under wet conditions, gradually wiggles out of its host ...

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 ...

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 ...

One boy demonstrates how to use a pipe filter for drinking water to avoid getting guinea worm disease in Ethiopia’s Gambella region. Photo courtesy: The Carter Center. ADDIS ABABA, April 29 (Thomson ...

The man was plagued by an unknown species related to the Guinea worm, one that may have recently jumped from reptiles to humans. Reading time 3 minutes The mystery over a worm infestation found in a ...

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 ...