Sometimes holes appear in plant leaves and it's not clear why. We rounded up five common causes for this problem and tips for preventing or fixing it.

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A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

A neurological disease called rat lungworm has been found in wild animals and one zoo animal in San Diego County, marking its ...

The Everglades seldom benefit from invasive species. Burmese pythons have unraveled food webs for decades. Asian swamp eels threaten wading birds. Green iguanas damage landscapes and infrastructure.

Among terrestrial species, that title would go to one of several closely related species of giant African land snail. According to Guinness World Records, the record holder, with a shell measured in ...

In the early 1990s, scientists worried that the greater Bermuda land snail—found only on the North Atlantic Ocean archipelago—had gone extinct. While later searches turned up some snails that had ...

Road salt has become far deadlier to freshwater snails when predator stress combines with salinity, driving sharply higher death rates than salt alone. That interaction means winter runoff can quietly ...

For most people, talking about poop is uncomfortable, but if you live with ulcerative colitis (UC), a form of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), it’s unavoidable — and it’s a crucial part of disease ...

A freshwater snail can regrow its entire eye, rebuilding the lens, retina, and optic nerve in about a month. Because its eyes share key genes and structures with ours, scientists are using CRISPR to ...

Freshwater streams, ponds and lakes across the United States are becoming saltier, and new research from the University of Missouri shows the damage may be greater than scientists once thought.