Internal parasites in cattle -- often called worms -- eat away at the performance and marbling potential in fed cattle, even when they're dewormed properly at arrival. That's according to research at ...

A collage of four images shared in August 2024 shows a woman's body infested with internal parasites as a result of her consuming raw pork for 10 years. A series of medical images spread on the social ...

Some parasites trigger their own destruction by altering their hosts' behavior, researchers at The University of Arizona and Wesleyan University report in Nature. Many parasites have developed ...

North American river otters eat, play and defecate in the same place. And their unhealthy habits make them ideal for detecting future health threats in the environment. Kristen Goodhue A North ...

(Trilobites): Leishmaniasis parasites eat human flesh. Cordyceps fungi lead ants to suicide. Toxoplasma gondii eliminate a mouse’s fear of cats. And a barnacle called Sacculina carcini castrates crabs ...

Experts have warned that climate crisis and land-use changes could be creating a conducive environment for flesh-eating leishmania parasites to infect more people in the US. Numerous studies by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Imagine a small, otherworldly looking crustacean that ...

Parasites that eat fish tongues and take their place in the mouth have been found in a batch of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K. The parasites, Cymothoa exigua, were first spotted in the ...

Three North American river otters play in the snow on the docks of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Detected with SERC’s night-vision wildlife cameras. North American river otters have ...