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(CNN) — Threadlike worms living in the guts of certain insects make their hosts jump into water and drown. What scientists knew about these parasites resembling strands of spaghetti was already pretty ...

Russian researchers have pulled off a feat that sounds closer to science fiction than standard lab work, reviving microscopic “zombie worms” that had been locked in Arctic ice for roughly 24,000 years ...

A tiny, noodle-shaped animal that no one expected to find in the United States has been pulled from the mud at the bottom of the Great Salt Lake. The microscopic roundworm, identified as a brand‑new ...

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