Latest about parasites
'Few insect orders have been spared': Why death by parasite keeps life in the forest thriving
"The fungus swiftly colonizes and liquefies the caterpillar's delicate innards via powerful enzymes that pervade the creature's entire body cavity, effectively consuming the caterpillar from the inside out."
8 times fossilized human poop dropped big knowledge on us. (Number 2 will surprise you.)
Here's the scoop on ancient human poop.
Zombie animals: 10 real-life cases of body-snatching
Zombie movies have it all wrong. Parasites are the real zombie killers.
10 ways to avoid summer tick bites
Experts shared tips with Live Science on how to protect yourself from tick bites and reduce your risk of tick-borne diseases.
Humpback whales caught on film for 1st time treating themselves to a full body scrub on the seafloor
New footage shows, for the first time, how humpbacks scrub off dead skin and parasites to stay streamlined and keep their skin healthy.
'Mind-control' parasite Toxoplasma hides from the immune system with 2 key genes
A single-cell parasite relies on two genes that boost each other's activity to switch into "defense mode" when attacked by the immune system.
Tick-borne parasite is spreading in the Northeast, CDC says
A tick-borne illness called babesiosis is spreading in the northeastern U.S.
'Supergene' mutation turned ants into parasitic wannabe queens
Scientists have identified a mutant strain of clonal raider ants that look like miniature queens and evolved quickly because of a single "supergene" mutation.
