Some creatures — like maggots — love to feed on decaying fruit. New research shows that they associate the texture of food with how tasty it is, too. So how did researchers figure that out?

For maggots, the experience of eating a succulent meal isn’t just about how their food tastes, but also how it feels.

RFK Jr. has detoured from his vibrant life of falconry and brain worms and reportedly sexting with reporters to embark on a ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

In early 2021, a 64-year-old woman from south-eastern New South Wales began dealing with stomach aches and diarrhoea, which ...

The patient’s condition, identified as cysticercosis, was caused by larval cysts of taenia solium (pork tapeworm) after ...

The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...

The ER patient had no idea they'd been infested with taenia solium until they went to the hospital with a broken bone ...

An ER doctor explained how a patient suffered a tapeworm infection, with an X-ray showing the larvae all over his pelvis and legs.

Dr Sam Ghali, an Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Florida, shared the X-ray images in an ...