The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, ...

Plants and animals typically act as hosts. In most situations, parasites do not kill their hosts. An exception, however, occurs with parasitoids, which blur the line between parasitism and predation.

Emerging data from a recent study reveal that the frequent misidentification of spurious parasites in canine feces may signal ...

A fascinating new book is an eye-opening journey into the many ways ants, apes, bees, bears, and other animals know how to ...

Schuetz, J. G. Reduced growth but not survival of chicks with altered gape patterns: implications for the evolution of nestling similarity in a parasitic finch. Animal Behaviour 70, 839–848 (2005).

Every summer, an insect with a sweet name poses a serious threat to the populations of the southern United States and Latin ...

They are dominant in the community of floating microscopic animals in the oceans, and also inhabit the microscopic spaces between sediment grains. Parasitic species of copepod are found on almost ...

In some orchids, photosynthesis is out and parasitism is in. Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their ...

In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take up a human blood cell ... Feb. 19, 2025 — Why have some orchids stopped photosynthesis and become parasites ...