This parasitic worm crawls into the eyestalks of snails ... Why it's awesome: This parasitic flatworm is best known for creating disco zombies: It takes over the bodies of amber snails (Succinea ...

CipherTrust can trace the increase in spam-sending zombies to Mocbot by comparing junk e-mail sent by systems it knows were compromised by the worm to the spam sent by new zombies, Alperovitch said.

A new species of marine worm that lives off whale bones on the sea floor has been described by scientists. The creature was found on a minke carcass in relatively shallow water close to Tjarno Marine ...

That's just what a group of researchers aimed to find out. The so-called zombie worms break down bone by excreting acid, according to research just presented at the Society for Experimental ...

A species of bone-eating 'zombie' worms fed off the skeletons of prehistoric reptiles - hampering scientists' efforts to learn more about species across the globe. Scientists found that Osedax ...