Parasites
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A Weird Lump on a Woman's Face Turned Out to Be a Worm Crawling Under Her Skin
By Rachael Rettner published
When a woman in Russia noticed a small lump under her left eye, she snapped a selfie. Then, the lump moved.
See How Brain Worms Turn Ants into the Walking Dead
By Mindy Weisberger published
Can you wrap your mind around the idea of an ant brain with a worm in it?
Baby-Eating Ants Use Espionage, Chemical Warfare To Score Free Rent
By Brandon Specktor published
Worst. Roommates. Ever.
These Gut Bugs Need Their Own Gut Bugs
By Rachael Rettner published
It's a Russian nesting doll of sorts: Parasitic bugs that live in the human gut have their own set of gut bugs inside their intestines.
How Swallowing a Slug Left a Teen Paralyzed
By Mindy Weisberger published
An Australian teenager who ate a garden slug on a dare was infected by a parasite that caused a debilitating brain disease, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down.
Why 17 People Volunteered to Be Infected with Parasitic Worms
By Sara G. Miller published
At a university hospital in the Netherlands, 17 students have a tropical parasitic disease.
Bizarre, Parasitic 'Fairy Lantern' Reappears in the Rainforest After 151 Years
By Rafi Letzter published
A strange plant that needs no sunlight and sucks on underground fungi for nutrients has turned up in Borneo, Malaysia, 151 years after the last time a scientist found it.
Tick Bites Tick! Tiny Male Puts the Bite on an Engorged Female
By Mindy Weisberger published
A tiny tick had an even tinier bloodsucking hitchhiker.
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