Topic: worms

Woman having painful stomachache. (Getty Images / athima tongloom)

Think twice before a parasite cleanse

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Image of a worm that is genetically engineered so that certain neurons and muscles are fluorescent. (Stacy Levichev)

Worms get munchies from weed, too

Troy Farah
Eyes of an octopus, a goat, a gecko, a goldfish, a jumping spider, a lion, a mantis shrimp, a macaw and a discus fish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mother Nature can't stop evolving eyes

Troy Farah
Plastic bottles and polystyrene floating in sea (Rosemary Calvert)

Superworms can eat styrofoam

Matthew Rozsa
Very Large Sponge Petrosia hoeksemai (Petrosiidae) (Getty Images)

A worm that grows like a tree

Matthew Rozsa
(<a href='url to photographer'>sydeen</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Joanna Rothkopf
(Screenshot, ASAPScience)

Lindsay Abrams
Blue garden flatworm or Blue Planarian (Wikimedia/Jacopo Werther)

Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com