Ancient fossils unearthed in Morocco reveal parasitic worms burrowing into mollusc shells approximately 480 million years ago ...

The researchers noted no other known species creates this exact shell damage pattern, confirming the worms' ancient origins.

Malaria kills over 600,000 people a year, and as the climate warms, the potential range of the disease is growing. While some drugs can effectively prevent and treat malaria, resistance to those drugs ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

More than two billion people around the world are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is primarily spread through cats and contaminated meat, yet the majority of ...

Oh deer—our scientists found that up to 25%of white-tailed deer on the east coast of the U.S. have a deer malaria parasite. Don’t panic, it’s not a risk for humans, but we’re still unsure of what it ...

The island fox (Urocyon littoralis) is a small fox species that is endemic to six of the eight Channel Islands of California. Image by Pacific Southwest Region USFWS from Sacramento, US - Island fox, ...

Thousands of trout raised at two facilities in Western Maryland have been or will be killed because of the discovery of a parasite that causes what is known as "whirling disease," the Maryland ...