More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting ...

The parasites are called trematodes. Two species of the flatworms were discovered in California’s freshwater fish, according ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack ...

In 2012, a Google Earth satellite captured an image of a striking hill formation in Sudan resembling human lips, dubbed the ...

Mindy Weisberger's new book details the crafty worms, fungi, and other parasites that have learned to mind-control their ...

It’s almost automatic—if you notice a smudge when you look in ... with humans. But now, incredibly, new research suggests that the cleaner wrasse—a tiny, tropical reef fish—can recognize ...

Most are then sold as feed for farmed fish, poultry, and pigs, as food for pets, or to a lesser degree, direct human ... crunchers, like Birch and the folks at Rethink Priorities, look at the ...

AI consciousness sounds like science fiction. But suffering chatbots could soon become a reality. I recently got an email ...

Yara Haridy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago, likes to stun people by telling them that our skeletons evolved from a jawless fish ... it looks like it's out of The Terminator." ...

Like most other troglobites ... British caver Nicky Bayley catches the blind cave fish inside a net in Ladaw Cave, as Harries (center) looks on. The team didn’t initially know how big they ...