An invasive species of worm is making its home in Texas once more. The hammerhead flatworm is an extremely toxic worm that is hard to kill and has proven extremely dangerous to native earthworms in ...

They might not be as ferocious as the sandworms from Dune, but hammerhead worms are nothing to sneeze at themselves. They’re toxic. They can carry parasites. They can grow to over a foot long. If they ...

Everything is bigger in Texas. Heavy rains around Houston are expected to bring out poisonous, foot-long worms that regenerate if cut in half, officials warned this week. The nightmarish hammerhead ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. There are more parasites than any other organism on Earth—which is one of the reasons Emmitt Jolly finds ...

Here’s a comforting thought: you might not actually be alone in your own body right now. Parasites are far more common than most people realize, and they don’t care about your personal boundaries, ...

There’s an invasive species of worm making itself known in Texas once again—the hammerhead flatworm. These worms are toxic, hard to kill, and dangerous to native critters like earthworms, but likely ...