A type of parasitic worm may be leading the creatures to their deaths there, researchers at Kyoto University and others have determined. Horsehair worms are parasites that hatch in water and first ...

Horsehair worms look like simple creatures on the surface, but they're actually some of nature's most sophisticated bodysnatchers. These parasitic worms, which resemble dark and stringy horse hair ...

The parasitic worms section includes terrestrial and marine Platyhelminthes (flatworms), parasitic Nematoda (roundworms), Nematophorpha (horsehair worms) and Acanthocephala. The collection has ...