Image via Shutterstock A veterinarian is warning against one common habit that you may let your dog do. Many pet owners see ...

“Humans are not infected by the adult tapeworms within the dog, but instead ingest Echinococcus eggs passed in dog feces by ...

A 35-year-old Indian man who couldn't urinate learned his problem was being caused by a horrifying worm that can grow up to a metre in length inside the human body. Disturbing images published by ...

Tapeworms, for instance. These parasitic flatworms already don't have the best reputation, due to, well, their parasitic nature and general proclivity for living inside human intestines.

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven't accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm ...

In this short film Dr Michael Mosley visits Kenya to see how the beef tapeworm needs to infect both beef cattle and humans to complete ... Footage of the cysts inside him is seen, followed ten ...

The remains of Juracanthocephalus were discovered in the Daohugou Lagerstaette, a fossil deposit in Inner Mongolia in ...

The gross-out factor is strong. Among the museum's selection of parasites is an 8.8-meter-long tapeworm recovered intact from a hapless diner’s intestine. Toshiaki Kuramochi, the museum director ...