Although we are just now beginning the winter season, small ruminant owners should still be regularly checking their animals ...

When a parasite infects a host, it can manipulate host behavior, which may help spread the parasite to new hosts, or enable the parasite to complete its life cycle. Parasitic worms known as hairworms ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C ...

WARNING ANIMAL DISSECTION! The film "Parasitism: Parasitic Flatworms" explores the relationship between parasitic flatworms and their hosts, detailing how these organisms live off other animals for ...

“We knew that many animals, including humans, can accumulate quite significant electrostatic charges,” said Dr. Sam England, who is a postdoctoral scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, but ...

In Episode 210 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dr. Caroline Sobotyk, Assistant Professor of Clinical Parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, joins us to discuss ...

From chimps tending wounds with bug juice to birds using cigarettes to ward of ticks and lice, animals have adapted creative ways to ward off health threats. Monarch caterpillars snack on milkweed, ...