A series of medical images spread on the social media platform X in August 2024, purportedly showing the body of a young Chinese woman "riddled with parasites after eating raw pork for 10 years." ...

Wildlife experts often field questions -- and maybe some concerns -- this time of year about what's spinning giant webs in ...

Scientists have accidentally discovered a previously unknown species of parasitic wasp that grows ... they thought it was a fluke. 'At the time we didn't think it was real,' Moore said.

These fruit fly invaders are considered parasitoids rather than parasites because they always kill their hosts unlike the latter, which generally leave them alive. Perlmani, which is the only ...

A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year's spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig Nobel gongs - awarded annually by the science humour magazine the ...

Horrifying parasitic wasp with a giant head is one of more than 100 newfound species discovered in the Amazon "I would say maybe the one thing that would explain why it's gone undiscovered for so ...

Other prize winners include a study that shows drunk worms are slower than sober ones, research into the swimming patterns of dead trout, and a paper into how scaring a cow every 10 seconds affects ...

Because there is a genus of clam called Megalodon (the name simply means “large tooth”), we will use “megalodon” (lower-cased and unitalicised) as our common name for this giant shark.

Daniel Bonn, University of Amsterdam “We had the idea that we could separate worms based on length,” said Woutersen. “Obviously, the long ones get stuck more easily around pillars and at equal lengths ...

Anisakis simplex (herring worm) is a fish parasite that is often found in Pacific salmon, monkfish, herring, haddock, flounder, and fluke. Human infection by anisakiasis and other nematodes, or ...

Attempting to deworm yourself at home with natural remedies is not recommended. Small worms in your poop likely indicate an intestinal parasitic infection. Types of small worms that can be seen in ...

The images featured in the collage are authentic and truly depict a body infected with parasites, which was later linked to the consumption of raw pork. However ... What's False ... the woman in ...