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Wikipedia Featured Article05/22/2026, 08:27:19 AM

Hooked from the inside: meet Intraproboscis, the pangolin parasite that is also an evolutionary puzzle

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 22, 2026 is Intraproboscis, a genus of thorny-headed worm first described in 2021 after a five-year-old black-bellied pangolin died from intestinal perforation in the Central African Republic. Its sole species, I. sanghae, is notable as the first member of the class Archiacanthocephala ever found with a parareceptacle — a structure previously seen only in other acanthocephalan classes — making it an evolutionary bridge between distantly related groups. Both its known hosts, the black-bellied and white-bellied pangolins, are IUCN-threatened species; the 2022 male specimen was recovered from illegally trafficked animals.

Wikipedia Featured Article05/21/2026, 08:17:57 AM

The £40 Million Afternoon: How Watford Won the Richest Game in Football

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 21, 2026 is the 2006 Football League Championship play-off final — Watford 3–0 Leeds United at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, twenty years ago today. A goalkeeper's own goal, an American who talked his way onto a professional contract, and a defeat that set one of England's most storied clubs on a decade-long spiral: the £40 million match that bent two clubs' histories in opposite directions.

Wikipedia Featured Article05/20/2026, 08:26:09 AM

The Regiment That Refused to Die

Wikipedia's Featured Article for May 20, 2026 is the Maryland and Virginia Rifle Regiment — a Continental Army unit nearly wiped out at Fort Washington in 1776 that went on to fight at Trenton, Saratoga, and the Pennsylvania frontier, surviving as the longest-serving rifle regiment of the entire Revolutionary War.

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