It looks like tapeworms have been upsetting guts for around 100 million years, as paleontologists believe they have discovered the first-ever proper fossil of one of the parasites. The partial ...

Parasitologists in China have discovered one of the world’s earliest tapeworm fossils, and might have their hands on the only fossilized tapeworm remains that aren’t traces from another animal. The ...

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every year so many new paleontological discoveries are made that add to our understanding of the deep past of our planet and 2024 has been no different all sorts of incredibly exciting findings have ...

Cestoda, commonly known as tapeworms, is a large class within the platyhelminth phylum with about 5,000 species described so far. Recently, researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and ...

A 52-year-old man reported experiencing worsening headaches for over four months with no explanation. Researchers said the migraines were the result of tapeworms being caused by a man's consumption of ...

No matter how bad things might seem, at least you haven’t accidentally eaten fox poop and developed an insidious tapeworm infection that masquerades as a cancerous liver tumor while it slowly destroys ...

A 52-year-old Florida man thought to be suffering from severe migraines was actually battling a bizarre tapeworm infestation in his brain — caused by eating undercooked bacon. The unnamed patient, ...

The man, 52, admitted that he regularly ate undercooked bacon, which doctors believed made him more susceptible to a tapeworm infection, according to a report out of Florida published in the American ...