Parasite of the Day

Dracunculidae is a family of worms with a nasty reputation. Most of this is due to Dracunculus medinensis , also known as the Guinea Worm w...

Sacculina pilosella is a parasite of spider crabs ( Scyra ferox ), and while it is technically a barnacle, you're going to have to aban...

The bonefish  is a popular recreational species for catch-and-release fishing. It is targeted by anglers using fly rods or light tackle, an...

The deep sea is home to unique communities of organisms, and wherever there is life, there are parasites, and deep sea habitats such as hydr...

Imagine an infectious disease that turns you into an immobile white statue - while that sounds like something out of a dystopian science fic...

Sometimes parasites get their own parasites too, and if you think that "enemy of my enemy is my friend", then you'd think this...

Tongue-biters are among the most (in)famous parasites found in fish, but they aren't the only type of isopods that parasitise fish, nor ...

On this blog, we like to revel in the obscure and bizarre, and it doesn't get much more obscure and bizarre than dicyemids  - a group of...

The bay scallop ( Argopecten irradians ) is a highly prized shellfish, but it has suffered through a rough history from overharvesting, habi...

Sometimes a new scientific discovery comes about while one is doing the most mundane things, and it might not even be a scientist who happen...