Several animals, often underestimated, are responsible for significant human fatalities each year. Mosquitos lead, causing up ...

When you think of the deadliest animals in the world, what comes to your mind? If your answer is sharks, lions, and big carnivores, you may need to think again. Fortunately, sharks only cause an ...

The oval-shaped body belongs to a marine flatworm, a group of invertebrates that can range in color from see-through to neon and seemingly glide along the bottom with hairlike protrusions all over ...

The drug candidate being tested, HC002, is an oral small molecule that was originally sourced from roundworms (also called nematodes) that live in our guts, but is now synthesized chemically by ...

Members of the online community were quick to identify the culprit as the New Guinea flatworm, a notorious carrier of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, also known as the rat lungworm. Found mainly in rats, ...

Classified biologically as protozoa and helminths (but better known as tapeworms, flatworms and roundworms), it is difficult to know how widespread parasites are globally because in many countries ...