Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum, with decades of Alaskan marine ecology preserved in brine and tin. Parasites can tell us a lot about ...

Canned salmon, long thought to be just a pantry staple, has unexpectedly become a valuable archive of Alaskan marine ecology. A recent study examined expired cans of salmon dating back to the 1970s, ...

Parasites are my passion and main topic of research in the Marine Disease Ecology Laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Otters can get zoonotic parasites like worms from the ...

Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab A bizarre South Atlantic fish wearing what appeared to be a big floppy hat was actually being fed on by two large parasites, marine researchers say.

Katrina has searched for marine parasites on both U.S. coasts, Central America and the Gulf of Mexico. (Photo by Chris Lohan) For river otters, pooping is a social event. And their droppings are ...

A novel species of parasitic isopod, active in the buccal cavity (mouth space) of marine fishes, has been identified in the Bay of Bengal by researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI). It ...

Parasite evolution refers to the heritable genetic changes that a parasite accumulates during its life time, which can arise from adaptations in response to environmental changes or the immune ...

Schmidt Ocean Institute video screengrab A bizarre South Atlantic fish wearing what appeared to be a big floppy hat was actually being fed on by two large parasites, marine researchers say.