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These Real Parasitic Critters Are the Stuff of Nightmares

There are plenty of scary and creepy animals in the world, from giant, hairy spiders to centipedes and saw-toothed anglerfish, but the creepiest of them all are often extremely tiny: parasites.

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Get Rid of Your Dog's Worms Using These 10 Home Remedies

The DE pierces the parasites' protective coating, which ultimately causes dehydration and death. DE can be used internally or externally to control a worm infestation: For dogs over 55 pounds, add 1 tablespoon of food-grade DE to their dog food and give it once a day.

Health

Parasites That Could be Infecting You Right Now

The Enemy Within: 8 Common Human Parasites

Being infested with parasites is something that you associate with people from faraway places. However, parasites that infect humans are a lot more common than you think. To add to this, a lot of them have no symptoms either, so a person can go years without knowing they’re infected.

Health

The Prevention and Cure of Intestinal Parasites

Here's How to Prevent and Treat Intestinal Parasites

There are many different kinds of parasite, however the two main types of intestinal parasite are helminths and protozoa. The former consists of worms with many cells that cannot multiply within the confines of the human body. Examples of these are tapeworms, pinworms and roundworms.

Science and Technology

These Are the Oldest Known Parasites Humans Have Found

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6 Of the Earliest Known Parasites Ever Found

In our school science books, we’ve all learned that a parasite is an organism that lives in another organism, called the host, and can even harm it. But do you know that parasites have existed for hundreds of thousands of years?

Health

Here's How to Get Rid of Intestinal Parasites Naturally

These 14 Foods Can Help Can Help Kill Intestinal Parasites

There's a good chance that you may have parasites. Despite what the majority of people believe, parasites come in many different shapes and sizes and exist in abundance beyond the borders of impoverished countries with poor health care.

Nature

Cave Dwelling Glow Worms Light up This Video

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WATCH Sparkling Glow-Worms Turn a Gloomy Cave into Art

What an incredible video this is of an illuminating natural phenomenon – New Zealand’s cave dwelling glow-worms - done with such amazing, painstaking skill and effort!

Health

Scientists Have Found Out How This Parasite Controls Us

This Parasite Knows How to Control Our Immune System...

Past research has concluded that when mice are infected by this parasite, they lose their instinctive fear of cat urine, and display signs of an impaired memory.

Science and Technology

7 Happy News Stories You Won't Be Able to Resist Sharing

Now, we may soon be eradicating the Guinea Worm parasite, which agonizingly erupts from under people's skin. At the beginning of 2015, only 126 cases were still left on the planet.

Nature

10 Beneficial Insects Your Garden Needs Right Away

Beneficial Nematodes These microscopic, worm-like organisms will keep all pests at bay. They will target the bad bugs, however, they occasionally go after the beneficial insects too - so watch out!

Health

The 10 Most Bizarre Medical Cases of 2019

These Are Some of the MOST Bizarre Medical Cases Ever Seen

A Walking Trip That Resulted in Eye Parasites When retired anthropologist and public health researcher Dianne Travers-Gustafson took a morning jog in California, she had no idea a swarm of flies she had encountered on her way would infect her with an eye parasite.

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The Glow Worms of New Zealand's Waitomo.

A Natural Wonder: The Underground Light Show.

Each little light you see is a larva of the glow worm, Arachnocampa luminosa, a creature unique to New Zealand. The worms spindle down from their nests on the ceiling with silk-like threads reaching about 30-40 cm down.

Funny

This is What Happens When you Take your Grandson on...

Hilarious: I Bet You Can't Put That Back In There!

He says: "Grandpa, I bet I can put that worm back in that hole." The grandfather replies: "I'll bet you five dollars you can't. It's too wiggly and limp to put back in that little hole." The little boy runs into the house and comes back out with a can of hairspray.

Health

Lemons Have More Health Benefits Than I Ever Realized!

Natural parasite killer Parasites and intestinal worms are very hard to get rid of, but there is a key element to getting rid of them that lemons contain.

Health

A Tapeworm in this Woman’s Brain is a Blessing in Disguise

The Doctors Thought She Had a Brain Tumor. They Were Wrong

Tapeworms are flat, segmented intestinal parasites often found in animals that eat or drink contaminated food or water. Humans can be infected by this parasite as well, typically after consuming under-cooked meat from an infected animal or living in poor hygienic conditions.

Health

Don’t Mistake Plantain Leaves for Weeds. They’re Healing.

The seeds, filled with mucilage which swells in the gut, can be used as a laxative or to treat parasitic worms. The heated leaves can also be used to dress wounds, skin inflammations, stings, swelling and can promote scar-free healing.

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The Spider Who Invented The Wheel

The spider escapes parasitic wasps by flipping onto its side and cartwheeling down sand dunes at speeds of up to 44 turns per second. This acrobatic feat must be seen to believe it. They have very little defenses and will shift up to 80,000 (!) their own body weight in sand to borrow well and hide.

Health

Disease Lurking in Swimming Pools Can Ruin Your Vacation

Crypto (short for Cryptosporidium) is a microscopic parasite ruining Americans’ summer vacations since 2009. This bug thrives in warm water, so it’s often found in crowded pools and lakes.

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This Bizarre Animal Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive

Scientists Discover the FIRST Animal That Doesn’t Breathe

This alien-looking animal is a distant relative of jellyfish, and it belongs to a family of common parasitic animals in the myxozoa class that infect fish, but this bizarre little parasite is truly outstanding, as unlike all other animals on Earth, H.salminicola doesn’t require oxygen to sustain itself

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Some of the Weirdest and Scariest Fish Ever Spotted

These Deep Sea Fish Are Way Too Weird For Words...

Peanut Worm The peanut worm, known by scientists as the Sipuncula, is a deep-sea worm that has a body that oddly resembles a phallus. When a peanut worm feels it is in danger, it will contract its long head inwards, which will result in it looking like a peanut.

Health

Why Tick Populations are Growing Rapidly

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Alarming! Why the Tick Population Is Growing SO Fast

Ticks may be small and they look pretty weak, spreading their tiny arms desperately in an attempt to catch their prey, but they are among the most dangerous parasites, affecting not only humans, but also other, more helpless animals.

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Nine of the World's Most Foul-Smelling Flowers

A Bouquet To Die For...?

It consists of a cluster of 15 to 20 flowers covered with fleshy projections that are meant to resemble wriggling worms! This unpleasant theme is recurring on this list, as carrion flies are the main pollinators of many flowers featured in this collection.

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This May Be the Strangest Square Mile In the Ocean...

From giant worms to frog fish, watch in horrified fascination as these remarkable creatures hunt their meals. The Ocean's Strangest Square Mile nature, video, underwater, sea life There are some very weird creatures down there...

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15 Deadliest Animals on the Planet and Where They Live

Beware of These 15 Animals, They’re the DEADLIEST on Earth

The bite transports the parasite to the human's blood, and in a matter of months, the infection can cause severe heart and intestinal problems, and even death. The bugs live throughout South America, Central America, and Mexico, as well as the southernmost regions of the US. 5.