Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

But in the wild, survival isn’t always a one-animal job. Some species form partnerships that help them find food, avoid danger, or raise young. These relationships can be smart, strange ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs” explores how parasites create real-life zombies in the insect and invertebrate world.

Vets use acupuncture to treat health problems in animals large and small, particularly to manage pain and reduce inflammation ...

It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ... ancient host–parasite relationships. This could help researchers to reconstruct these parasites’ evolutionary history.

In fact, social monogamy is extremely common in birds and somewhat common in mammals, while sexual monogamy is vanishingly ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

A viral video from the Eastern Cape shows a baboon wearing shorts removing all feathers from a chicken that stands completely ...

The host of life on ice includes bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, even microscopic animals like nematodes ... after thawing," she said. "For example, a wide array of both RNA and DNA viruses ...