Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...

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 ...

Many tapeworms require multiple hosts – one or two in which their larvae develop, ... There I find a gray-scale scanning electron microscope image of the scolex (head) of Yorkeria izardi, ...

Pictured: the fossil tapeworm (A), as compared to a modern tapeworm (B). Image C shows a scanning electron microscope image of a living tapeworm tentacle. The newly-discovered specimen in amber is ...

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 ...

In scanning electron microscopy, ... Wiik-Nielsen says, things like tapeworms and roundworms become incredible when amplified by an electron microscope.

Using light and scanning electron microscopy, as well as histology, the research team found that the members of this lineage of tapeworms displayed physical characteristics that demonstrated a ...

And human sperm. A leaf surface at 600 times magnification and the head of a dog tapeworm no bigger than a grain of rice. ... Both types of electron microscopes make black-and-white images, ...

No microscope is needed for a close look at the tapeworm Taenia saginata, which regularly reaches 33 feet (10 meters) in length. This tapeworm hatches inside the digestive tract of cattle, and ...