It's especially common in the feet, buttocks, thighs and hands, but the worms can enter through any part of the skin. An infection cannot spread between humans. Another key characteristic of a ...

The worms caused eosinophilic meningitis, a rare condition where parasitic infection causes brain inflammation. Unlike bacterial meningitis, eosinophilic meningitis is marked by an increase in ...

Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black ...

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a ... lying in wait of a snug or snail. Humans are accidental hosts and get infected with the L3 larvae ...

An international research team has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous ...

So much so that they may be Earth's next big species if ours ends up going the ... That would namely be us humans, whose distant ancestors were initially aquatic before becoming land-based mammals.

A fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been discovered by a research team from the Nanjing ...

Active, polymer-like behaviour One way in which worms differ from humans is, of course, their shape: a worm's length is much larger than its width (i.e., it is spaghetti-like), and moreover it is ...