What might such an insidious-sounding head look like under a microscope? Not very nice, as it happens. One extreme closeup from 2017 reveals the scolex of a Taenia solium tapeworm, and it's just ...

Tapeworms are flatworms that look a bit like ribbons. Their bodies are made up of segments, and each segment is about the size of a grain of rice. Adult tapeworms can grow to be 30 feet ...

Blood clots don’t always look worm-like in your pee. Most of the time, they look like small, reddish, or darkish chunks floating in otherwise normally colored urine.

It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites.

A robotic explorer filmed the deep-sea worm as part of Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition of the Chile Margin Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013 ...

The velvet worm, a squishy little predator that looks like the stretch-limo version of a caterpillar, has a whimsical MO: it administers death by Silly String.

If you’ve ever wondered what a tapeworm looks like close-up, you might be in for a shock. There are plenty of creepy things that we don’t want to think about going on in our body, while the idea of a ...

Capannelle stands 5 ft. 4 in., weighs 132 Ibs., and looks like Jimmy Durante trying to look like Mohandas Gandhi. He has the innocence of Durante, the gentleness of Gandhi, and a stupidity that is ...

Tapeworms have been making headlines ever since an investigation by The New York Times turned up a deposition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gave in 2012. ... it looks like Swiss cheese,” Budge says.

An image of the unnamed spaghetti worm from the newly released MBARI video. (Image credit: 2012 MBARI) A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tentacles recently ...