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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.