In so doing, they found that many of the pictures of seahorses had images of H. anthogorgicola in the background. The worms had been photobombing the seahorses for many years, it turns out.

In 1986, the World Health Assembly called for the eradication of Guinea worm. At the start of the Carter Center-led program ...

When researchers analyzed images of tiny seahorses taken by scuba divers, they found evidence of photobombing worms in the hundreds, living alongside the seahorses in coral colonies from Japan to ...

Former president Jimmy Carter’s charity has helped transform Guinea worm from a disease that used to infect millions to one ...

Related: Jimmy Carter dies at age 100. His life in pictures Those who worked closely with Carter suspect Guinea worm’s toll on poor African farmers resonated with the former president ...