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You may not notice their good work, but small snail-like creatures known as limpets are performing an invaluable ecological service by eating and eating and eating...

The Hawaiian island of Maui is experiencing an uptick in infections stemming from a parasitic roundworm that invades the human brain. Or, in less scientific parlance, brain slugs. In the past three months alone, health officials...

“It feels good to eat your enemies,” says Andrew Deines, a postdoctoral researcher at Michigan State University, who studies the ecology of invasive organisms...

People are often accused of anthropomorphizing non-human creatures when their actions "seem" to be similar to human activities, but is it really inconceivable that insects might think and feel the same things we do? What...

People are often accused of anthropomorphizing non-human creatures when their actions "seem" to be similar to human activities, but is it really inconceivable that insects might think and feel the same things we do? What...

Florida's not having the best of luck when it comes to invasive—and in cases, unnerving—creatures. After giant Burmese pythons appeared in the state, there came warnings of super-sized mosquitoes set to descend this summer...

Florida's not having the best of luck when it comes to invasive—and in cases, unnerving—creatures. After giant Burmese pythons appeared in the state, there came warnings of super-sized mosquitoes set to descend this summer,...

Would you slather snail goo on your face if it meant a flawless complexion? One company believes they’ve unlocked an anti-aging miracle courtesy of the common snail. Smoothed on in cream or gel form, mollusk mucus...