It sounds like something from a horror flick. A small, parasitic creature swims into the mouth of a fish and attaches itself to the organism’s tongue — yes, fish have tongues — causing it to slowly ...

Sea lamprey can kill freshwater fish. Great Lakes Fish Commison Have you ever seen black spots on the skin of a trout? Or small worms burrowed in the fillets of your crappie? How about a bass that has ...

Announcing a new publication for Marine Life Science & Technology journal. In this review article the authors Caiwen Li, Meng Li and Qian Huang from Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of ...

Parasites give new meaning to the cliché “eat or be eaten.” Often their life cycle can be completed only if they are ingested by a host—multiple times for some—making the odds of their survival ...

Parasitic isopods, particularly those within the family Cymothoidae, represent a remarkable example of host‐parasite coevolution in marine environments. These crustaceans attach to or embed themselves ...

Parasitic tapeworms have a complex life cycle moving from plankton to fish and then fish-eating birds. New research on how parasite resistance in threespine stickleback fish may lead to a better ...

A parasitic crustacean living in the mouth of an Atlantic croaker after eating its tongue. Photo: Galveston Island State Park-Texas Parks and Wildlife/Facebook Wildlife officials in Texas recently ...

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting humans, according to a new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps ...

They’re tiny, they’re widespread, and they’re inside the fish you might be grilling this weekend. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is ...

People who eat forms of raw fish such as sashimi or nigiri should be aware of a new study that has been published by the University of Washington. The study looked into the significant increase in the ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare species of cymothoid from the mouth of a museum specimen of a deep-sea shark caught from the East China Sea, suggesting its wide distribution around the ...