The US has come up with a strategy to stop the flesh-eating New World screwworm's northern march toward the US-Texas border.

The U.S Department of Agriculture shut down animal imports through ports along the southern border due to a growing outbreak of New World Screwworms. It's a deadly parasitic fly that's spreading in ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Toxoplasma gondii is an incredibly pervasive parasite that can infect pretty much any warm-blooded animal, taking up ...

I ntrepid microbe hunters have discovered 20 new viruses lurking in the bat populations of the orchards of southwestern China ...

A microscopic parasite quietly infects the brains of millions worldwide. Known scientifically as Toxoplasma gondii, this tiny ...

Study finds that the pace of evolution in organisms differs depending on the type of cells involved. A new study finds that ...

Officials in nine countries are trying to get a handle on the New World screwworm, a fly whose larvae eat the living flesh of ...

On top of the freakiness of them, Penn State states how the worm produces a neurotoxin known as tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin can irritate the skin of humans who come into contact with them, and might ...

Monoclonal antibodies provide protection against a wide range of infectious microbes, and now, in a series of elegant ...

One viewer on social media commented: "Every time I think about introducing fish back into my diet, I see a post like this." ...