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Citizen science allows us to discover how invasive flatworms travel from garden to garden… surprisingly, on the backs of dogs and cats!
Take the personality quiz to match with one of NZ’s larger-than-life little creatures, then cast your vote.
White-tailed deer host these brain worms, but they don’t actually get the disease, which makes it harder for biologists to monitor its prevalence.
Going into a dormant phase may help animals coexist with competitors, experiments with nematode worms suggest.
Some 500,000 insect species are facing extinction. Poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose can help raise awareness of the essential roles these creatures play in our ecosystems.
My passion for earthworms and ecology led me to continuing Darwin’s experiments in his own ‘back garden’
And why earthworms are careful to select a mate of the same size as themselves.
The last full moon of winter can illuminate earthworms in newly-thawed soil.
Robots often have a hard time navigating through debris, but robots designed based on worms and snakes could move around obstacles faster, thanks to an idea called mechanical intelligence.
Cane toads are evolving as they spread across Australia. Parasitic lungworms are becoming more infectious to keep up.
The waters of the St. Lawrence are running out of breath and bottom-dwelling organisms are already feeling the effects. Here’s how ecosystems are reacting.
Thawing permafrost in the far north is an inviting prospect for invertebrate burrowers.
In the vast St. Lawrence River, an impressive variety of animals live on the seabed. This group of organisms is called benthos or benthic invertebrates.
The intersection of infected livestock from endemic tapeworm regions and dogs scavenging for disposed animal by-products creates the perfect storm to infect vulnerable human populations.
Headlines about brain worms can be alarming. There are much more common parasites which can infect your body and brain and ways you can minimise your risks of being infected with one.
A strange worm found in the jungle, then harvested and preserved in… gin, provides a better understanding of the evolution and genetics of flatworms.
After nearly 40 years of effort, Guinea worm disease is on the cusp of being the second human disease – after smallpox – to be eradicated on Earth.
A large proportion of primary school aged kids get infected with pinworm at some time – and yes, it can make them pretty moody.
Potato productivity in Kenya is declining, this is partly due to potato cyst nematodes - a microscopic type of roundworm that feeds on potato roots.
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Professeur, UMR ISYEB (Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Reader in Ecology, University of Lancashire
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Palaeontology, Durham University
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Honorary Professor, Federation University Australia
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology, University of Sydney
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PhD Researcher in Environmental Science, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Insect Diversity, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement, University of East Anglia
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Environmental Biologist, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University
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Professor of Veterinary Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool and International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya, University of Liverpool
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Research scientist, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University