In case you need a little more nightmare fuel, sci...  ...uel, scientists have been studying a fish eyeball parasite . Diplostomum pseudospathaceum infects a fish's ey...  ...than usual, which protects both the fish and the parasite from predators. But when the larva is mature, it...  ...place in three different...

The world is a scary place, but the things we are...  ...kin of humans through the hole left behind by the parasite they were attached to and then the larvae will li...  ...evered tongue, that is truly horrifying. The tiny parasites enter the fish through its gills. They are born m...  ...male.Image via Paddleg...

Scientific research can read like a horror story w...  ...can read like a horror story when the subject is parasites . There are numerous parasite species that not only feed on their victims, but...  ...quo;s behavior for their own ends. In effect, the parasite is exerting mind...

Poor bees. First, there's the ho...  ...collapse disorder, then there's this: a parasite that turns bees into zombies . Honeybees (Apis mellifera) in...  ...outh Dakota have been observed acting zombielike , wandering away from...

Photo: David Hughes/Penn State U...  ...a species of fungus that turns ants into zombies . Aptly called the zombie -ant fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis s.l.), th...  ...as discovered that some ant colonies survive this zombie infestation ... with a little...

Parasites are raising an army of zombie wasp queens to do their bidding, and it's a good...  ...o their bidding, and it's a good thing that these parasites aren't more ambitious, because they'd probably b...  ...n their way to taking over the world by now! The *strong cla...

If you want to catch Mother Nature at her best (an...  ...e or darned scary), then look no further than how parasites hijack the biology of their hosts. Take, for inst...  ...nding itself a mate.Gruesome, eh? Here are 9 more zombie parasites over at TopTenz: Link

Discover Magazine has a pretty neat run down of zombie animals and the parasites that control them. Did you know that parasitic pr...