The USDA best describes the etymology of the name screwworm: ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

Fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate using sensory neurons, as discovered by researchers at UC Santa Barbara.

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

Warm temperatures, humidity, and standing water create the perfect environment for mosquitoes to breed, especially in the spring. And with more rain on the way, we need to be ready for them!

A 35-year-old man who couldn't pass urine learned that the cause of his obstruction was a giant worm living in his kidney.

Research from the University of St Andrews could help combat threats to global food security by dealing with flour beetles ...

Scientists suspect many species are in decline—but there are still unanswered questions and a lot of hope. Here's when and ...

"Once the egg hatches, the ant has only a few weeks of life before it succumbs to the manipulations of its attacker, ...

Fish will hold near the bottom of the deeper pools and runs where the flow is slowed by the bottom of the river as well as in ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Spring is harvest season when you're living off the land in the high Arctic. Here's how the author learned from Inupiat ...