A TikTok video of a worm wriggling in a package of salmon has gone viral. Here’s the scenario. You drop by the local fish market and treat yourself to something expensive. Perhaps a piece of halibut ...

It might be Shark Week, but sharks aren't the only hammerheads to watch out for this summer. An invasive worm that packs the poisonous power of a puffer fish and the slithering stamina of a snake has ...

It sounds like a scene straight out of a nightmare. It all starts with a bite from a mosquito that's carrying the worm's larvae, says Natalia Pshenichnaya, a physician who studies infectious diseases ...

When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom. Until, that ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. As a kid growing up in southern California, Don Arndt always loved the ocean. “I’ve always been fascinated with fish,” he said. “My ...

Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world's oldest ribbon worm on record. The adopted invertebrate is fondly called ...

DAYTON — Lots of people around the Miami Valley are seeing the woolly worms out and about before the big winter season. Hey, it’s Stormcenter 7 Meteorologist Ryan Marando. What’s behind the folklore ...

Small fraction of a single living specimen dissected out of its host sponge as seen through the stereomicroscope. Some dislodged fragments of sponge tissue can also be seen. Image: Ponz-Segrelles G, ...

It was a literal tape worm. A UK mom was relieved — albeit embarrassed — after discovering that her son’s “brain-eating worm” was actually a harmless piece of tape. The ordeal occurred in November ...

It sounds like a scene straight out of a nightmare. It all starts with a bite from a mosquito that's carrying the worm's larvae, says Natalia Pshenichnaya, a physician who studies infectious diseases ...