It is often suggested that anyone who finds one of these invasive worms should kill it (carefully). Here's what else to know.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina is no stranger to invasive species ― but some are a bit more unsettling than others. Plenty of invasive species ...

After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

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A parasitic worm might be the impetus behind a new generation of medicine. In a recent review in published in Clinical & ...

A fox parasite that can spread to dogs and humans has made another appearance in the Pacific Northwest, researchers at ...

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Scientists from the Universiti Malaysia Sabah have discovered a newly identified “parasite of parasites ” in the tropical ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. What no one could work ...