Head lice can be a wintertime headache for families and schools, but simple precautions can stop the spread of these ...

Imagine that you are a worm. Well, to be precise, you’re a larva, and you have an important job to do: transform into a moth. So you spin very thin filaments from glands in your head, they bond ...

A Thelazia infection, called Thelaziasis, can “cause mild to severe signs and lesions, such as foreign body sensation, ...

The new species would have resembled the iconic "sandworms" from the science fiction franchise "Dune", one researcher said.

Another popular theory is that the "vibrations from the rain are perceived by the worms to be similar to the vibrations that ...

The new world screw worm, a species of fly that lays its eggs in the open wounds of warm-blooded animals, is making a ...

Images of pygmy seahorses taken by scuba divers were crawling with worm photobombs. Worms’ limbs, heads and tails poked out of coral burrows in the hundreds; the scientists even counted seven ...

Common land planarians are easily identified by their triangular, spade-shaped head. Some can stretch out a foot in length.