While it has a cute snoot, a rice weevil is a stowaway. It sneaks into your pantry as an egg that its mom laid inside a ...

A disturbing X-ray image shared by an emergency room doctor has revealed thousands of calcified tapeworm cysts throughout ... a "classic appearance known as rice grain calcification".

Essentially, these are larval cysts of taenia solium — also known as the pork tapeworm ... gives them this classic appearance known as rice grain calcification.” Ghail maintained that ...