Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

They’re like living feather dusters whose mouths can see you coming. The simplest animal eyes consist of light-sensitive ...

Roman soldiers at Hadrian’s Wall weren’t just defending the frontier—they were also battling parasites that made daily life ...

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Romans living in ancient Britain were plagued by intestinal parasites, all of which are spread by fecal contamination ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Heidi Klum recently opened up about the result of her worm cleanse. A few months ago, she revealed in an interview that she was planning to cleanse her body of worms and parasites internally. Now, the ...

Heidi Klum admitted she’s unsure if she and her husband Tom Kaulitz’s controversial “worm and parasite cleanse” actually worked. “So many people asked me, too, like, ‘What happened?’ I’m like, ‘I ...

Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida, causing significant declines in native small mammal populations. Originally introduced through the pet trade, the wild python population in the ...

Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crystals ...