Around half a billion years ago, in what is now the Yunnan Province of China, a tiny larva was trapped in mud. Hundreds of millions of years later, after the mud had long since become the black shales ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

Many tortoise beetle larvae create shields for themselves using faeces and old skin. Scientists have now looked at how and why they create these poop parasols. When you purchase through links on our ...

A Florida man with worsening migraines was found to have parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain, according to a report published this month in the American Journal of Case Reports. Doctors believe ...

The newly discovered Youti yuanshi larva fossil is so well-preserved that it provides a road map for arthropod evolution during the Cambrian period. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Mortality in eggs produced in 1972 by the eastern tent caterpillar, Malacosoma americana (F.) in northwest Arkansas was investigated. Total mortality from parasitism, infertility, and unknown factors ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - The very first direct setting project in the Gulf is underway, and it could be revolutionary for the oyster industry. Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae and ...