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  • Tapeworms are a human intestinal parasite that can grow to lengths of thirty feet, and can live in the human body for three decades.

    Can Bone-Munching Zombie Worms Help Fight Childhood Obesity? Con Chapman 2011

  • Tapeworms may carry hundreds of times more lead or cadmium than the fish they travel inside, and thousands more than the surrounding water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms may carry hundreds of times more lead or cadmium than the fish they travel inside, and thousands more than the surrounding water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms, reaching up to sixty feet long, are the biggest parasites that live in humans.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms may carry hundreds of times more lead or cadmium than the fish they travel inside, and thousands more than the surrounding water.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms, reaching up to sixty feet long, are the biggest parasites that live in humans.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms, reaching up to sixty feet long, are the biggest parasites that live in humans.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

  • Tapeworms probably first evolved in the earliest ray-finned fish.

    Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

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