Yet, for all the parasites’ collective contributions to biomass and biodiversity, conventional food webs don’t account for the presence of these tiny and numerous consumers. A recent study featuring ...

Moreover, major corporations, which also fail to pay taxes, receive major subsidies from the government. Who are the real parasites?

WHAT goes on the list of the most abundant living things on Earth? Parasites should surely make the cut. They live within us and many other animals, as well as in plants and fungi, and slip under ...