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Sabrina Imbler

A view inside the Texas Division of Emergency Management State Operations Center as they respond to the New World Screwworm threat on June 5, 2026 in Austin, Texas.

Creaturefector

Welcome, Screwworms! Make Yourself At Home

jon allen holds a worm up in front of a class

This Worm Is A Millennial

Split image. The lefthand side is Olivia Nuzzi attends the 2023 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. She's wearing a leopard longsleeve top and has long blonde hair and is smiling tightly at the camera. On the right side is an image of a purple blob of some sort.

Politics

Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm

a photo of the microscopic flatworm Stenostomum simplex, which looks like a worm with green balls inside its body.

Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm

a pygmy seahorse that is red and pink with little bumps on its body hides in a coral that looks exactly like it

A Small And Beautiful Seahorse Reveals An Even Smaller And Reclusive Worm

A still of a swimming colony of worms that resembles a jellyfish moving around a glass beaker

worms

Welcome, Screwworms! Make Yourself At Home

This Worm Is A Millennial

Olivia Nuzzi Addresses The Worm

Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm

A Small And Beautiful Seahorse Reveals An Even Smaller And Reclusive Worm

Mysterious Jellyfish Actually 1,020 Worms Who Want To Be Poop