A mother in Virginia sued a funeral home after she said her son's body was infested with maggots during his viewing.

The lawsuit claims that maggots covered Williams' face and body. "The maggots had burrowed into holes in his cheek and mouth ...

“Maggots pouring out of this young man’s nose ... The lawsuit alleges that Snellings did not properly clean and disinfect Williams’ body before the embalming process. The case is set to be heard in ...

The investigators took a DNA sample from the man and then looked at the gut contents of three blowfly maggots from the dead body. They found traces of human DNA in the bugs' stomachs.

When police found a burned body in Mexico, investigators were able to identify the victim using genetic material from an unusual place — inside maggots infesting the corpse.

A mother has filed suit against the funeral home in charge of services for her son, who died at 24 years old in a car ...

Light-sensitive cells lining the bodies of fruit fly maggots allow the larvae to squirm away from bright light, a new study finds.

Maggots feeding on the body of a morbidly obese teenager were at least 48 hours old when examined, an expert has told the trial of a man accused of neglecting his daughter.

Ancient Remedies Using maggots and leeches on the human body goes way back — the ancient Greek physician Galen referenced them more than two thousand years ago. Striped barber poles, in fact, are a ...

Interestingly, though perhaps unsurprisingly, this is the first time that human DNA from a maggot gut has ever been used to successfully identify a victim in a legal case.

This is consequently the first reported case of taking human DNA from the gastrointestinal tract of maggots to identify a victim in a criminal case.

Claim: Photographs show a man whose brain became 'infested with maggots' due to an ingrown hair or consumption of contaminated sushi. Dude gets an ingrown hair. It gets infected, now he has a boil ...