When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why. But Dallas researchers ...

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A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

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, ...

For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast Asian rainforests. They become visible only when they ...

A parasitic twin is an extremely rare type of conjoined twin. While research is limited, experts suggest that this condition doesn’t cause severe complications. But it requires surgery — often in the ...

Doctors in India have carried out a rare and life-changing surgery to remove a 17-year-old boy’s “parasitic” twin. Parasitic twins occur when one foetus stops developing but remains attached and ...

The parasitic mites were found on juvenile arachnids in the Butantan Institute collection. The larvae of Araneothrombium ...