Canned salmon, long thought to be just a pantry staple, has unexpectedly become a valuable archive of Alaskan marine ecology.

A woman consumed a 'substantial amount of leftover crayfish' and later sustained a fever and lost the ability to communicate ...

The four most concerning female parasites lay eggs at different rates. For instance, a female brown stomach worm will lay about 200 eggs per day, while a female barber pole worm can lay 10,000 eggs a ...

(Mental Floss)-- When it comes to parasites, it's all about perspective. You may call a lifetime of growing and feeding off another organism lazy, but we call it opportunistic. In fact, these ...

The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, ...

The comedian Shappi Khorsandi once commented that she used the mythical concept of 'sugar worms' to get her children to brush ...

Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic infection, among other things. They searched for ...

Gut symptoms blight millions of Brits every year. But the cause may not be actually be irritable bowel syndrome or ...

In extreme cases, the swelling can be profound, resulting in a condition known as elephantiasis. This is because the worm ...

It's possible to spot threadworms in the stool after a bowel movement ... Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 million people ...