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Officials at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have discovered a strange parasite that eats a fish's tongue and takes its place. In a first-of-its-kind discovery, the officials found that the parasite not only eats...

The changing climate felt in recent years has proven deadly for moose populations in the northeastern United States. Longer fall seasons and warmer winters have caused winter tick populations to thrive at the expense of their...

Forget bug spray — LG recently unveiled a new smartphone that repels mosquitos using sound waves. The India-exclusive K7i smartphone is a fairly ordinary phone with a 5-inch HD display, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage....

The finches of the Galápagos Islands are probably best known for their role informing Darwin's theory of evolution, but researchers say if drastic measures aren't taken to protect these birds, they could go extinct within...

What will save the bees? In an effort to explore the issue, National Geographic commissioned writer Charles C Mann and photographer Anand Varma to produce a story called Quest for a Superbee...

In Malaysia, a rare form of malaria caused by the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi has leapfrogged other sources of the disease to cause 68 percent of the country's malaria cases in 2013...

  Most of us take for granted the fact that we can walk barefoot across our living room floor and not end up with a life-threatening disease, but that's far from the case in many regions of the world...

Image via Shutterstock Halloween is tomorrow, and this young girl's fancies are turning to, what else? Zombies! Yes, we all secretly worry about the coming zombie apocalypse, though not enough to assemble the disaster-preparedness...

Image © Shutterstock Just months after Sanaria researchers created the world's first malaria vaccine, UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has made a similar breakthrough in its own large-scale Phase III trial...

Image © Shutterstock Only months after the announcement that Sanaria researchers had created the world's first 100% effective malaria vaccine, UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline has made a similar breakthrough in its own large-scale...

Some unforeseen problems caused by global warming:Almost 2000 jellyfish species have increased in population, expanded their range northward and now appear earlier in the year.Ticks that transmit Lyme disease have spread...