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, ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

While the idea of worms in your canned fish is a bit stomach-turning, these roughly 0.4-inch (1-centimeter) long marine ...