Distinguished by its unusual morphology and a reproductive system based on something called "sexual parasitism," the anglerfish represents a study in how life adapts to severe environmental ...

Over the last decade, John Huntley, a paleontologist and an associate professor of geological sciences at the University of Missouri, has studied the history of parasite-host interactions. These ...

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...

Zooplankton and phytoplankton communities play host to a wide diversity of parasites, which have been found to play a significant role in a number of ecosystem processes, such as facilitating energy ...