As climate change profoundly alters ecosystems in North America, a small parasite is wreaking havoc: the winter tick. This ...

The black spots seen on rabbits may be warbles, which are caused by the botfly – not usually fatal, but they don't look pleasant and can be a little gross to hear about.

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...

Balanophora lost photosynthesis long ago but kept tiny plastids that run key chemistry and shows how forest parasites adapt ...

A plant that looks like a fungus, lives like a parasite, and clones itself in the dark—Balanophora may be one of evolution’s ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

From tariffs and trade policies to the longest government shutdown in history, farmers have been hit from all angles.

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

Researchers have extracted metabolism-related molecules from fossilized animal bones up to 3 million years old. The ...