Scientists from China, Sweden, and Australia have discovered what they claim is the oldest known parasite, publishing their results in Nature Communications.1 The evidence comes from small tube-shaped objects attached to the shells of the host brachiopods.2 Scientists speculate that these tubes contained some sort of parasitic worm.
Parasites are “nutritionally dependent upon the host for at lea… More…
Source: icr.org
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