Read more about the article Brave Little Fish Risk Their Lives By Rubbing Against Great White Sharks To Exfoliate, Study Says
School of Pacific jack mackerel chaffing against a white shark at Guadalupe Island, Mexico. (Jesus Erick Higuera Rivas/Newsflash )

Brave Little Fish Risk Their Lives By Rubbing Against Great White Sharks To Exfoliate, Study Says

These small fish rub against great white sharks and a new study argues that it could be so they can exfoliate their skin and remove parasites. A team of researchers…

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Read more about the article Washed Up Dead Dolphin Found Crawling With Parasites On Spanish Beach
Dolphin found dead, covered with parasites on a beach in Almeira, Spain in October 2021. (Asociacion Equinac/Newsflash)

Washed Up Dead Dolphin Found Crawling With Parasites On Spanish Beach

This unsettling footage shows a dead dolphin washed up on a Spanish beach crawling with parasites. The footage was posted on Facebook by Asociacion Equinac, a marine wildlife rescue organisation…

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Read more about the article Parasitic Wasp Discovered That Can Only Grow If It Feasts On Other Parasites
Perilampus wasp discovered in UAE and Yemen. "reproduced with permission from the copyright holder".

Parasitic Wasp Discovered That Can Only Grow If It Feasts On Other Parasites

A Canadian scientist has discovered a new, "hyperparasitic" wasp in the Middle East whose larvae burrow into caterpillars and can only emerge as a fully-grown wasp if it finds another…

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Read more about the article Man Gets Parasites From Raw Fish And Loses Half A Liver
A scan performed at Hangzhou First People’s Hospital in Zhejiang, China, on 3 June show Mr Xie’s inflamed liver filled with fluid and tumour-like growths due to a parasitic fluke infection

Man Gets Parasites From Raw Fish And Loses Half A Liver

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A Chinese man who ate a delicacy of undercooked fish has lost half a liver after the vital organ was “eaten" from the inside by an army of parasitic flatworms…

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