“This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially, these are larval cysts of taenia solium — also known as the pork tapeworm.” He explained that the unnamed patient developed the ...

The largest rings were as big as marbles while the smallest were ... The halos, doctors would discover, were worms: the larval form of the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium, endemic to much of South ...

The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones—relatively speaking. Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of this Mediterranean marine worm, we would need a big ...

Their discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a worm-like creature rarely over a few centimeters in length, is described in a paper published today in Current Biology. "Scientists have hypothesized for ...