A rare parasitic twin protruding from the chest of a 17-year-old boy has been removed by surgeons in Delhi, India.

Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD ...

“My long-standing aim is to rethink what it truly means to be a plant,” Kenji Suetsugu, a botanist at Kobe University in ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of Okinawa, grows what most might mistake for a mushroom—but it is actually a very ...

Some parasitic plants can ‘steal’ genetic information from their hosts through horizontal gene transfer, which they then use to make themselves a better parasite. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Overtaking a throne sometimes takes a touch of matricide. Some newly mated ant queens sneak into other ant colonies and spray their queens with a liquid that sends workers into a murderous frenzy, ...

A middle-aged man in the U.S. developed a parasitic infection in his brain after eating undercooked bacon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Scientists have just identified two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps living in the United States. The discovery is described in a study in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research led by ...