Threadlike worms living in the guts of certain insects make their hosts jump into water and drown. What scientists knew about these parasites resembling strands of spaghetti was already pretty bizarre ...

A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the ...

Our world is full of bizarre and intriguing creatures. One of the strangest, though, is the hairworm, a parasitic worm known as a "mind control worm" in some circles. These parasitic worms are found ...

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White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to ...