Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

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

Initially established in Everglades National Park in the early 1980s, Burmese pythons quickly put a stranglehold on Florida's wildlife, contributing to the decline of small mammals, including raccoons ...

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 ...

Chagas disease, or American trypanosomiasis, is one of the most important yet neglected parasitic infections in the world.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...