After posting his discovery online, Jenkins was told that the creatures were infected with a ‘zombie parasite’ – an ...

Activities of ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers and more start increasing in the spring. Here are tips for protecting yourself from ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...

Others kill by constriction, wrapping their bodies around their prey and squeezing until it is unconscious or dead. Some species use their tails to entice prey — moving the end mimics the action of a ...

However, the researchers reasoned that the wasp likely did not intend to kill with the bizarre grasping ... Its larvae then started their lives as parasites in or on the host’s body and likely ...