A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

Parasitism is a common life strategy in the natural world; how they will fare under climate change remains to be seen ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One such parasite lurks in Chesapeake Bay: an invasive barnacle that hijacks a mud crab’s reproductive system and impregnates it with parasite ...

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Researchers have discovered a rare example of "great fish parenting" with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating parasites. Using genome reconstruction, scientists ...