Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

Scientists uncover rare parasitic snails living inside sea cucumbers in Japan—offering new insights into unusual animal relationships.

We can see snails leading similar lives, slimy but not bothering anyone. Yet some species of tiny sea snails are a bother: they are common parasites of sea cucumbers.

These parasitic worms invade snails and take over their bodies, turning them into zombie-like creatures with flashing, pulsating eye stalks! The infected snails unknowingly become walking bait for ...

Both parasites are originally from Southeast Asia. They entered the U.S. inside an invasive aquatic snail, Melanoides tuberculata, also called the red-rimmed melania or Malaysian trumpet snail.

We were given a behind-the-scenes look at the daily tasks assigned to the aquarists of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell ...

A shocking new study shows that 90% of freshwater fish in Southern California may be carrying parasites that can infect ...

Researchers want the parasite to be added to the diseases that public health officials are required to report. Researchers ...

Fireflies light up summer nights across the Carolinas, but climate change, habitat loss and light pollution threaten their ...

The snail is now found in at least 17 states and Puerto Rico. Previous research by the same team found that the snail and the two trematodes have become widespread at freshwater fishing sites in ...