A parasitic worm capable of infecting the human brain has established local transmission in California for the first time, ...

Brain-eating worms known as 'rat lungworm' have been found in San Diego County, the first time the parasitic worms have been ...

Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors of these bone-burrowers back through 100 million years of evolution. Deep ...

A neurological disease spread by rats and other animals may have become established in San Diego County.

TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

Warning: This article is not for those with a weak stomach. Adventureland is hosting its second annual Phantom's Worm Eating Contest amid Iowa's largest Halloween event, Phantom Fall Fest. You read ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...