Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...

“We knew that many animals, including humans, can accumulate quite significant electrostatic charges,” said Dr. Sam England, who is a postdoctoral scientist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, but ...

Several animal species display brood care, a phenomenon where 'caring' parents provide their offspring with food and protection against predators. However, there are many others that prefer not to do ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To survive in the harsh wild, many animals turn to drastic measures for food. An example of this is a feeding strategy known as ...

In a world full of bizarre animals, hairworms are some of the strangest. Hairworms are parasitic worms that manipulate the behavior of their hosts in what's sometimes called "mind control." Hairworms ...

Pervasive parasitic infections reduce herbivory rates and can therefore trigger trophic cascades that impact plant communities, according to new research. This work helps fill a recognized knowledge ...