New evidence suggests that a disease-causing tapeworm that has been spreading across the United States and Canada has arrived ...

Conservation managers who try to keep members of endangered animal species parasite-free are well-intentioned but this approach is misguided, according to a new research. Conservation managers who try ...

Deer, caribou, bison and other similar animals are often infected by a range of internal parasites, including worms called helminths. Although many of these infections are not lethal, they can still ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the ...

Accurate diagnosis of parasitic infections is of pivotal importance for both individual patient management and population-based studies, such as drug efficacy trials and surveillance of parasitic ...

Old canned salmon turned out to be a time capsule of ocean health. Researchers found that rising levels of tiny parasitic ...

The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, to lose either species would be a devastating blow. But what of their ...

Scientists often attribute the tendency of male mammals to die earlier than females to hunting, fighting for mates, and other risky behaviors that the males engage in. In the Sept. 20 Science, however ...

In Episode 210 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dr. Caroline Sobotyk, Assistant Professor of Clinical Parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, joins us to discuss ...

Katie Clow receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). She has completed veterinary education ...

Louise Gentle works for Nottingham Trent University. If you saw the first episode of David Attenborough’s new BBC series Perfect Planet, you will have seen the astounding bloodsucking behaviour of the ...