In the book "The Call of the Honeyguide," applied ecologist Rob Dunn explores mutually beneficial relationships between different species. But Dunn argues the relationship between humans and cats may ...

Firm admits supplying water unfit for human consumption after nearly 150 people fell ill A major utility company has admitted supplying water unfit for human consumption after a parasite outbreak in ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

If you put a pair of headphones on one of the earliest creatures resembling mammals, would it start rocking out to the music, or would it hardly be able to hear anything? There have been arguments ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, which scientists long viewed as evolutionarily neutral since vitamin C from ...

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, a microscopic worm that plagues more than 200 million across the globe, are seen through a microscope at the lab of University of Georgia ...

In a bizarre first, the South China Morning Post reports, doctors in China have surgically grafted a patient’s severed ear to her foot. The patient, a woman identified by their surname Sun, suffered a ...

Scientists at ARUP Laboratories have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that detects intestinal parasites in stool samples more quickly and accurately than traditional methods, potentially ...

Some female stinkbugs grow fungi from an organ on their hindlegs and use the microorganisms to protect their eggs from wasp attacks 1. The organ is found only on the hindlegs of females in a small ...

More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. Researchers said the ...

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 ...