Parasite of the Day

In the ocean, squids occupy a sort of middle position in the food web. While they are voracious predators that attack anything that moves, t...

Copiatestes thyrsitae is fluke that lives on the gills of fish, and while there's nothing out of the ordinary here as far as parasites ...

Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to write a...

Nematodes (roundworms) just can't get enough of being parasites. Parasitism has independently evolved at least fifteen times among nema...

When it comes to parasites, for most people it is a case of "out of sight, out of mind", and that especially applies to holoparasi...

Tardigrades (also known as "water bears") have built up a reputation for being pretty much invulnerable  (even though Bdelloid rot...

The bile duct of a bird is probably the last place you'd expect to find a microscopic, parasitic relative of jellyfish, but that is exac...

Pea crabs are a type of tiny crabs that live mostly in bivalve shellfish such as mussels, oysters, and scallops. Scientifically known as pin...

Galactosomum nagasakiense is a parasite that lives rent-free in fish's brain and give them " Trematode Whirling Disease " (TW...

Do you like eating fish? Well so do some leeches. Most people only know about the leeches that feed on humans, but there are also numerous o...