One of the slowest moving creatures in our world, the snails become the hosts of a ghostly parasite that turns them into zombies. This isn't an episode out of some horror movie but a truth that ...

Free-swimming stage of the trematode parasite. A single infected snail can release thousands of these tailed-stage parasites into the water every day. At this stage the parasite swims out from an ...

Then there is the phenomenon of the zombie snails, which is too bizarre to omit. This occurs when snails ingest the Luco chloridium parasite, which makes their antennae swell and strobe ...

Discussions of zombie parasites rarely lead to advice on transforming ... organism that travels from the digestive tracts of cows to snails to ants and back to cows to end its lifecycle where ...

Invasive apple and mystery snails in Georgia have tested positive for rat lungworm, a parasite that can cause illness if the snails are consumed raw or undercooked. Although the risk of infection ...

The snails were collected from multiple locations around the state and tested for the presence of various parasites. The tests confirmed a low-level presence of rat lungworm in both species.