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 ...

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 ...

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 infected snail, seeks out and burrows into a fish.