The parasitic flatworm, Leucochloridium paradoxum, turns snails into zombies by controlling their eye stalks. The infected stalks resemble caterpillars, attracting birds that eat the snails.
The Natural History Museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of parasitic worms in the world. The parasitic worms section includes terrestrial and marine Platyhelminthes ...
Cestodes (tapeworms) form a monophyletic group of parasitic Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and include over 5200 described species. Adult cestodes reproduce in the digestive tract of vertebrates, but ...