Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

When a parasite infects a host, it can manipulate host behavior, which may help spread the parasite to new hosts, or enable the parasite to complete its life cycle. Parasitic worms known as hairworms ...

Although we are just now beginning the winter season, small ruminant owners should still be regularly checking their animals ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C ...

WARNING ANIMAL DISSECTION! The film "Parasitism: Parasitic Flatworms" explores the relationship between parasitic flatworms and their hosts, detailing how these organisms live off other animals for ...

“We knew that many animals, including humans, can accumulate quite significant electrostatic charges,” said Dr. Sam England, who is a postdoctoral scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, but ...

The animal kingdom is home to all kinds of stories – adventures, romance, tragedy, and as it turns out, even horror stories. Scientists at Brown University have now uncovered a creepy new zombie story ...

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

From chimps tending wounds with bug juice to birds using cigarettes to ward of ticks and lice, animals have adapted creative ways to ward off health threats. Monarch caterpillars snack on milkweed, ...