While many of us are excited about the prospect of finding life on other planets, there's still also so much about life on ...

ROMULUS, Mich. (WXYZ) — The live larvae of a rare fruit fly was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection earlier this year, according to the department's ...

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 ...

A person in Maryland is confirmed to have a screwworm living in them. It is the first case in the U.S. in several years. The person, who was not identified, had traveled to the U.S. from El Salvador, ...

In the insect world, impostors could be hiding anywhere. When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly ...

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 ...

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 ...