Across the animal kingdom, sound is more than communication—it's a signal of survival and success. From birds and primates to ...

Male green treefrogs attract mates with loud calls, but new research shows parasites can subtly change those signals.

The Anopheles stephensi mosquito is a known vector for malaria. (Jim Gathany/CDC/public domain) Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young ...

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

A team of ecologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has made a breakthrough that has implications for multiple fields within biology as well as epidemiology. Ecologist Ryan ...

Parasite extinction will have lasting and far-reaching consequences for biodiversity, and subsequently for humans. Kelly Speer Bat ticks (Ornithodoros) under a microscope. These parasites primarily ...

It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...