It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

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During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has ...

Many people eat and live to make their brains, eyes, muscles and other organs, including the prostate, breeding grounds for worms including, tapeworm, and other parasites. The rainy season will creep ...

Tapeworms aren't the only flatworms capable of grotesque feats of nature. Non-parasitic flatworms have equally horrific ways of attacking their victims. The slender flatworm Euplana gracilis consumes ...