It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...

The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, to lose either species would be a devastating blow. But what of their ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient ...

From mosquitoes to bed bugs, parasites have always stuck close to humanity, and they continue to shape our lives to this day, entomologist Dino Martins writes in his new book. Reading time 8 minutes ...

We may think of parasites being small and microscopic, but they're not all like that... Meet the world's biggest parasites ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to ...