It's no Halloween movie: These parasites can hijack the brains of other creatures—and make them act in horrific ways. Parasites are organisms that live alongside a host, sometimes even taking ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Lincoln River (Mason County) to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin applying lampricides to the Cass River in Tuscola and Saginaw counties to kill ...

With a mouth full of teeth and a hunger for blood, the lamprey is one of nature’s most disturbing invaders. In this video, we ...

As part of Rapid Growth’s Voices of Youth series, Flora Duckworth-Guerra created a two-part visual guide exploring six ...

What if this parasitic fungus could do the same thing to us? That’s the premise of the new television show based on the video game The Last of Us in which, as a result of warming temperatures ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU)— A new study by local fishing agencies has unveiled a promising method to control the invasive sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes. Traditionally ...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack ...

In her new book, Rise of the Zombie Bugs: The Surprising Science of Parasitic Mind-Control, author and science writer Mindy Weisberger delves into the world of zombifying parasites, aka the ...

The U.S. is ramping up the fight against a parasite that experts say is a multibillion-dollar threat to the Texas cattle industry. America has temporarily blocked cattle imports from Mexico due to ...

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is reminding anglers and the public to avoid disturbing spawning sea lamprey that may currently be found in the Connecticut River and ...

The parasites are introduced species from elsewhere, and Americans are perhaps not aware of the risk, the authors write in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Stream San Diego News for free ...