Ground control

On a summer’s day, your garden is full of activity, with hoverflies, butterflies and bees flying from flower to flower. But that is only one slice of the action on your plot. In the ground beneath you

Of all the strange and wonderful animals that live in the deep sea, perhaps the most tantalising are the ones that are occasionally glimpsed by deep-submerged cameras, then swim off into the darkness

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One of the challenges with worms is that dogs can carry them without showing obvious signs, particularly in the early stages. Worm eggs can survive in soil and grass for years, meaning dogs can become

This will make you squirm. The “tail end” of a fish tapeworm that infects the intestines of about 20 million people worldwide “often protrudes from the anus of a patient to cause an alarming surprise,