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It's sad that this praying mantis was killed—but what comes out of its body is as disgusting as it's long. Horsehair…
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Mira Grant, author of the Newsflesh series that began with Feed, is back with a new biotech horror series. Parasite,…
A microscopic view of the brain-eating amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri reveals a trio of feeding structures, twisted…
For humans and most other animals that you don't need a microscope to see, honeybees are notorious for their stings.…
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Edward Cullen? No. This person actually exists. Alexander Skarsgård? No. In fact, drop the vampiric line of inquiry…
When an Indian man asked a doctor to examine his irritated eye, the doctor discovered the man had a little squirming…
This image may look like something dreamed up for a surreal horror movie, but it's a real horror for the tarantula in…
The Malaysian plant Rafflesia cantleyi is a parasite, attaching itself to another plant and deriving all its food from…
Neurocysticercosis is an infection that happens when you have the misfortune of eating bad pork. It causes severe…
Something is very wrong with the bees. Since 2006, the mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder has…
Rat are notorious pests, with populations throughout the world living off the scraps and garbage left behind by humans.…
If seed beetles aren't careful, wasps will invade their eggs and have their own young kill the beetle larvae for…
The single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii lives infects rats, but it needs to be inside a cat's digestive system in…
Malaria kills almost a million people every year and makes another 250 million people very, very sick. Soon we may be…
Cancer patients may feel like they have alien creatures growing inside their bodies, robbing them of health and vigor.…
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