Researchers have recently unearthed coprolites, or fossilized feces, from Mexico’s ‘Cave of the Dead Children’ that date back 1,300 years. These ancient excrements are teeming with parasites, shedding ...

Microscopic analysis of thin sections of a coprolite found organic structures identified as the egg of a parasitic nematode worm and additional worm eggs or some sort of protozoan cyst. Photo by ...

Ancient reptilian carnivores that resembled modern crocodiles were fearsome hunters, but their scaly armor and sharp teeth couldn’t protect them from parasites, scientists have discovered.

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Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. They share stories of the power of parasitism through the ...

Researchers remark that the anatomy of this flatworm, preserved in amber for 99 million years, bears a remarkable resemblance to modern flatworms inhabiting shark intestines. Nearly 100 million years ...

A multidisciplinary study published in Nature has elucidated the structure of the machinery responsible for writing much of our "dark genome"—the 98% of our DNA that has largely unknown biological ...

During its lifetime nearly 100 million years ago, a newfound parasitic worm likely made its home in the bellies of fish. So how one ended up preserved in amber, fossilized tree resin, has ...

Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the Middle East contributed ...

Scientists have found evidence of ancient parasites preserved in the dung of an aquatic predator from more than 200 million years ago. The ancient predator -- believed to be an extinct crocodile-like ...