If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

Dog and cat roundworms have been linked to loss of vision, difficulty breathing, asthma, epilepsy and cognitive decline in ...

The researchers said they saw puppies playing in fenced-off playgrounds, despite signs indicating dogs were barred from the ...

New research from zoologists at Trinity College Dublin has pinpointed park entrances and playgrounds in Dublin as hotspots for roundworm eggs, with subsequent analysis strongly implying they have come ...

The four most concerning female parasites lay eggs at different rates. For instance, a female brown stomach worm will lay about 200 eggs per day, while a female barber pole worm can lay 10,000 eggs a ...

PARK ENTRANCES AND playgrounds in Dublin have been identified as a hotspot for a parasite found in dog poo, new research has ...

New research by zoologists at Trinity College has identified the entrances to public parks and children's playgrounds in ...

A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

Parasites can cause digestive issues, fatigue, skin problems, anemia, and more. Symptoms vary, often mistaken for other ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...