Itchy fish use sharks as swimming scratching posts. When parasites plague fish, the afflicted animals find relief in shark skin. By Laura Baisas. Published Oct 20, 2022 4:30 PM EDT.

Studies of these parasite populations and their life cycles offer indirect confirmation of the sharks’ extreme longevity, as the relationship between host and parasite has clearly evolved over ...

While rubbing up against a shark sounds like a risky move if you're a fish, a collaborative research team found that this behavior is frequent, widespread, and could play a previously ...

Small fish that rub their bodies against great white sharks could be exfoliating their skin and trying to remove parasites, researchers say. The risky behavior exhibited by the fish could play a ...

Fish use sharks as scrub brushes by pushing up against the sea predator's scaly bodies to get rid of parasites and other irritants. Skip to main content.

Remora fish are known for their ability to latch on to other fish without causing harm. ... The remora fish also eats parasites off the shark's body that would otherwise bother the shark, ...

A hungry shark that tried to gulp down a spiny porcupine fish suffocated on its supper, when the prickly mouthful got hooked halfway into the shark's gullet and blocked the predator's gills.

The relative mass of parasite to host is much higher for freshwater fish than for sharks, he notes — a shark might need a lot of parasites to suck up enough metal to protect it.

Parasite replaced the tongue of the fish. Galveston Island State Park. According to Coastal Fisheries Science Director Mark Fisher, "Tongue-eating louse or 'snapper-choking isopod' are somewhat ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A treatment used to control a parasite problem at the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi led to the deaths of hundreds of fish from three exhibits, officials said ...