Dr. Dillon gave him a rare old marine worm from the bottom of L. I. Sound.
A worm from an ecosystem far, far away has been named after the Star Wars character Yoda.
He doesn't talk or pluck a huge rubber worm from the ground at the top of every hour.
Anonymous says it has obtained details of the Stuxnet worm from the emails of HBGary, a US security company the loose hacker collective attacked earlier this month.
A new species of onychophora – or velvet worm – from Costa Rica is, at 22cm, about one-third larger than the previous record.
We flipped past a colonoscopy, a tubercular chest, a shot of Dr. Aggrawal tugging a long Guinea worm from inside someone's leg.
One day, I watched as the local medical staff managed to coax four inches of the reluctant worm from behind Nakal's swollen knee.
I learnt of the magic worm from Australian expatriate chef and owner of the Hanoi Cooking Centre, Tracey Lister, who I met later that afternoon.
It ended with doctors pulling a 1cm-long worm from the brain of man who had lived unwittingly with the parasite for at least four years.
Sometimes destitute, regularly living off the land (and sea), Dampier was an enterprising and hardy individual who survived the looming threat of scurvy and other gruesome diseases (at one point he spooled two feet of guinea worm from his leg).
Now that they understand that it is contaminated water rather than witchcraft that causes the disease, village elders have barred anyone with a dangling worm from entering a water source.
