Wearing traditional cosmetic face masks from their homeland of Madagascar, they agreed to be photographed to take a stand.

Prescription medications like praziquantel target specific parasites, with dosage calculated by weight. The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends retesting 2-3 weeks post-treatment to confirm ...

In vitro responses of praziquantel-resistant and -susceptible Schistosoma mansoni to praziquantel. Int J Parasitol 31: 1227-1235. Liang YS, Dai JR, Zhu YC, Coles GC, Doenhoff MJ 2003. Genetic analysis ...

When handling a hammerhead worm, always wear gloves and never touch the worm directly. Kristian Jaime is the Top Story Reporter for the El Paso Times and is reachable at [email protected].

Weeks of heavy rain have prompted a plague of massive toxic hammerhead worms to erupt from the ground in North Texas, much to the chagrin of frightened locals.

I decided that I, too, needed to attend the Longwood Area Worm Meeting. Thus began a trip into the world of C. elegans worms and the people who love them. In 25 years as a writer in Boston, I’ve ...

The worms were equally mobile, and none appeared to have an advantage over others in becoming the head of the tower (i.e. the part that most benefits from this behavior).

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these ...

The bigger question is how the worms communicate within the towers. If the worms on top latch onto a fly, how do those at the bottom know to detach from where they’re anchored?

Living towers: A closer look To find out what was motivating the nematodes’ building behavior, the study team tested the worms’ reactions to being poked, prodded and even visited by a fly ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the strength of their clade. If food runs out and ...

Living towers: A closer look To find out what was motivating the nematodes’ building behavior, the study team tested the worms’ reactions to being poked, prodded and even visited by a fly ...