James Cook University scientists have found stonefish toxins could be used to fight parasitic worm infections suffered by nearly a quarter of the world's population. JCU Ph.D. candidate Danica ...

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to put the number of Canadian visitors to Florida and the Canadian residents in Florida in their proper context. FORT MYERS, Fla. (WFLA ...

China has released a cartoon depicting Taiwan's president as a parasite held by chopsticks to be cooked over a fire - as Beijing's armed forces have surrounded the island in a show of strength.

Flo is not quite a normal teenager: While all his friends only think about sex he can't even pronounce the word "S - E - X". But everything changes completely when one morning Flo wakes up from a ...

Parasitology is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the biology of parasites and parasitic diseases, including the distribution, biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology ...

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from Armageddon suggests. In the Book of Revelation, Armageddon is where the apocalyptic final clash between ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth's Critical Zone, an area of deep soil that restores water quality. Ground water, which becomes drinking water, passes through where ...

And no creature exemplifies the power of collective will quite like the army ant. The term army ants, however, is not specific to one type of ant. It applies to over 200 ant species with remarkably ...

How many stars twinkle in our galaxy? How many grains of sand stretch across the Sahara? How many ants roam the Earth? For a long time, most questions like these seemed unanswerable. Yet, as research ...

A parasite cleanse refers to a strategy used to eliminate organisms living in and feeding off your body, such as pinworms. This approach typically relies on a combination of herbal supplements and ...