Doctors in India recently made a rare and unsettling discovery after a 35-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room ...

This free-swimming stage of a parasite larva, a trematode cercaria, leaves an infected snail to encyst on a fish brain. View is 0.267 mm across. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

Even if a tapeworm is not yet visible, a doctor can check stool samples for parts of larvae or eggs. From there, medication will clear up the parasite. “Sometimes the tapeworm will exit your ...

With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae attack and capture prey in aquatic habitats. Published in the Annals of the ...

don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in disguise. Analysis of wasps trapped in amber has revealed that the insect ensnared hosts for its larvae with an alluring ...

A particularly gruesome example of insect zombification occurs when parasitic wasps lay their eggs inside caterpillars. The larvae chew their way through the caterpillar to spin their cocoons on ...