A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...

Weeks of heavy rain have prompted a plague of massive toxic hammerhead worms to erupt from the ground in North Texas, much to ...

A creepy-crawly invasive species known as the hammerhead worm is reappearing in Texas, following several weeks of excessive ...

Invasive hammerhead worms are spreading in Texas, and have been spotted in Houston, Dallas, Austin and toward the coast.

Hordes of writhing flesh-eating worms have erupted from the ground in Texas , terrifying local residents. The worms can irritate the skin of humans and also tend to prey on earthworms.

A 43-year-old man discovered a dragon worm parasite up to 70cm long in his leg after self-extracting it at home, prompting ...

The worms wriggled beneath the animals’ skin, migrated to blood vessels that surround the intestines, and started laying eggs. Bruno Guigas, a molecular biologist at the Leiden University Center for ...

Despite its name, ringworm is not a worm at all. It is a skin infection caused by a fungus. In dogs, ringworm often presents as a dry, gray, scaly patch, although it may cause no symptoms at all.

Toxic hammerhead worms are resurfacing in North Texas following a bout of ... the hammerhead worm produces a neurotoxin through its skin that can irritate human skin and be harmful to pets if ...

However, "worms don't have lungs like we do," Thea Whitman, a soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science. Instead, earthworms absorb oxygen through their skin, ...