Horsehair worms, belonging to the phylum Nematomorpha, are enigmatic parasites renowned for their intricate life cycles and subtle host manipulations. These worms typically inhabit terrestrial ...

My grandson Parker recently sent me an email and one of the strangest animal photos I have ever received. Most of my ecologist colleagues have never seen the critter that Parker found, but he knew ...

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 ...