Friday Parasite #36: The Wellcome Parasite

I learned about this game from Carl Zimmer: the Wellcome Trust has opened their enormous image library to all of us through a Creative Commons license. And Memoirs of a Skepchick has challenged us all to find the “coolest image.”

Here’s my entry: it’s a light microscope image of the head of a dog tapeworm (Taenia pisiformis) showing a close up view of the hooks that attach the worm to the inside of the dog’s intestine.

Photo By MI Walker