Imagine finding a stray hair — then watching it slither away like a snake. Video of such a creature was shared this week on Facebook by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which identified the creepy ...

Horsehair worms, belonging to the phylum Nematomorpha, are enigmatic parasites renowned for their intricate life cycles and subtle host manipulations. These worms typically inhabit terrestrial ...

A light rain was falling May 9 as I was washing dishes, watching the fragrant flowers of the lilac shrub bounce in the breeze outside our kitchen window. Something atop the pale bubblegum-pink blooms ...

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The difficult-to-detect meningeal worm is spread by white-tailed deer and is a notorious killer of moose. AP Photo/Jim Cole, File A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and ...

My grandson Parker recently sent me an email and one of the strangest animal photos I have ever received. Most of my ecologist colleagues have never seen the critter that Parker found, but he knew ...

In 2008, Kurt started to experience things that hadn't bothered him before: dry skin, fatigue, irregular bowel movements and a white coating that formed over his tongue. For years, he saw both ...