The horrific Guinea worm once infected millions of people a year. Thanks to Jimmy Carter and others, the leg-infesting parasite is now on the brink of eradication. Reading time 3 minutes Former U.S.
Just south of the Mediterranean Sea in the arid landscape of Tunisia, layers of rock and soil hold evidence of past eras. Millions of years of pressure make the remains of ancient species turn from ...
These three specimens of M. sestertia in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History (dorsal, top, and ventral views shown here) were collected in 1936. Bugs and worms comprise nearly a ...