LEGENDARY “natural mummy” Ötzi the Iceman was infected with a cancer-causing virus. The ancient human, who live around 5,300 ...
A recent study suggests that the large mammals may seek out parts of bananas and papayas when they’re suffering from gut ...
Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...
As Discover Wildlife reported, University of California, Riverside researchers have been tracking the spread of the New World ...
Thankfully, mass administration programs launched in the late 1980s, which distribute ivermectin to at-risk populations ...
In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...
Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.
New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...
Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...
Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...
They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...
It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...