Ticks are parasites that bite and feed on humans and pets. They can spread Lyme disease and other infections. Here's what to ...

Much later, in the 19th Century, swimming pools emerged in Britain and the US. But along with them came the challenge of ...

Invasive hammerhead worms are spreading in Texas, and have been spotted in Houston, Dallas, Austin and toward the coast.

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Within dimly lit FBI offices and shadowy woods, The X-Files constructed a world in which the unexplainable was not only ...

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

A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

After heavy rainfall, sightings of an invasive species have been on the rise in North Texas. Hammerhead worms, named for their distinct hammer-shaped head, are a species of worm endemic to Southeast ...

Even after 20 million years of evolutionary separation, two tiny worm species show astonishingly similar patterns in how they ...

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

A parasitic roundworm, usually found in brains of unlucky python snakes was recently surgically removed from a human. And ...

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...