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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

If you've handled cat litter or eaten raw meat or unwashed produce, there’s a chance you might have a permanent toxoplasmosis ...

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

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

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

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