A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Members of the California agriculture community are just as worried as their counterparts in Texas, where an outbreak could ...

Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother. By Rebecca Dzombak Rebecca Dzombak previously reported on ...

1 College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States 2 College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, ...

A new study has unexpectedly discovered that a common parasite of modern oysters actually started infecting bivalves hundreds of millions of years before the dinosaurs went extinct. The research, ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

Health officials are warning of a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on living tissue and can infest humans. The larvae feed on healthy tissue, according to health experts. New World Screwworm was ...