Zombies are real – not in the walking dead sense, but there are parasites that can hack the brains of living creatures and ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

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Three-dimensional X-rays show that the flaps could open and close, likely to trap other insects. Perhaps most disturbingly, the researchers detected a needle-like structure that the parasitic ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers.

In "The Last of Us," cordyceps — a real fungus that infects insects — evolves into a harmful pathogen for humans due to a ...

Scientists warn that the dire wolf could bring "unintended consequences." "We are modifying creatures in new ways. Should we ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Holotype of Sirenobethylus charybdis. Qiong Wu The morphology of the wasps indicates that they were parasitoids, or insects whose larvae live as parasites inside their hosts before eventually ...