There are many parasites found in the gastrointestinal system of both dogs and cats. These invaders can cause serious illness ...

When a parasite infects a host, it can manipulate host behavior, which may help spread the parasite to new hosts, or enable the parasite to complete its life cycle. Parasitic worms known as hairworms ...

A new species of mite attached itself to spiders' necks, draining them of lymph fluid as they grow from larvae to adults.

Parasites have the ability to turn their hosts into zombiese. This creepy infection is part of the parasites survival. Learn more here!

WARNING ANIMAL DISSECTION! The film "Parasitism: Parasitic Flatworms" explores the relationship between parasitic flatworms and their hosts, detailing how these organisms live off other animals for ...

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

“We knew that many animals, including humans, can accumulate quite significant electrostatic charges,” said Dr. Sam England, who is a postdoctoral scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, but ...

For humans, feces are last on the list of things we’d place near our mouth. In the animal world, that reaction does not ...

In the late 19th century, when scientists first discovered the single-celled creature called Nephromyces, they thought it was a parasitic fungus. They were wrong ...