This is the head of a tapeworm that takes up residence in people’s skulls.
You aren’t trying to eat dinner right now, are you?
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
This is the head of a tapeworm that takes up residence in people’s skulls.
You aren’t trying to eat dinner right now, are you?
This explains Todd Starnes.
Yikes. It wasn’t that long ago that I read Mira Grant’s Parasite. Yikes again.
What exactly was the Bible Bogey thinking when it created that?
I’m pretty sure that’s the beta version of a crown of thorns.
Daniel Dennett is re-writing the opening to “Breaking The Spell” even as we speak.
Yes, things get into our heads and make us act in ways that benefit them rather than ourselves. Like patriotism, religion, Libertarianism, and Spirometra erinaceieuropaei.
Never been happier to be a cephalopod.
PZ, you smegging bastard…
Well… not at this moment, which is about 60 seconds after seeing that picture.
http://youtu.be/smeIow61DLU
(Also, please pass the dewormer…)
So is it “an inordinate fondness for beetles”
or
“an inordinate fondness for brain-eating-…um …whatevers”
Well-played, microraptor.
Yeah, actually. Ta for that…
That is a picture of an adult stage: I wouldn’t think you’d find an adult stage in a brain. I’ve never read about adult stages of tapeworms outside of digestive systems.
But I suppose larval stages wouldn’t look as hideously exciting.
Noah had two of those, right?
Right, it’s the larval form that winds up in people’s brains. And by accident too; it’s not part of their life cycle and humans aren’t the intended host.
‘All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.’
You’ve got to admire his sense of humour.