TAMPA, Florida -- It's like something out of a science-fiction movie -- a brain-eating parasitic worm living in your eye. But for one Florida man, it was reality. ***Warning: This story contains ...

Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...

Bone worms (the red animals in this picture) were first discovered in the early 2000s, but these animals are believed to have evolved more than 100 million years ago. Adapted from Fujiwara et al. via ...

Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors of these bone-burrowers back through 100 million years of evolution. Deep ...