Relic worms for relic fishes: Gyrocotylideans are an ancient group of parasitic flatworms which are related to tapeworms. Appropriately enough, these frilly worms live in the gut of an ancient host - the holocephalans (ratfish), also known as Chimaeras #Invertebrate 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Li Bing to the stone rhinoceros, during the Warring States period: "You will deter the water demons and pacify the rivers' torrential flow" Stone rhinoceros >2200 years later: "Guess I'm an anime girl now, toot TOOT!"

Large stone rhinoceros sculpture excavated from near Tianfu Square, dating from the late Warring States period : "Nooo! Don't turn me into a marketable plushie! Nooooo!!!"

#Invertebrate books at the Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library

This story raises two major concerns: aside from the devasting impact on bat populations, this also provide a potential transmission route for various zoonotic pathogens to jump from bats 🦇 to rats 🐀 to humans 🚶 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

No, it's fine, I just didn't think the the bookstore where I'd run into Haruhi to be Chinese, that's all

How much stress would a wood beetle get if the wood beetle was filled with worms? Horned passalus beetles can have dozens to thousands of worms squirming inside them - and these worms can affect how their host responds to stress #invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/06/chon...

Dragonflies and chicken butts: Prosthogonimus cuneatus is a fluke that lives up the butt of birds. Also known as the oviducts fluke it can cause chickens to lay malformed eggs. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/01/pros...

Guy whose sole exposure to Chinese culture is the Road to Empress FMV (2025) visiting the 长春宫 in 故宮 for first time: "Getting a lot of Road to Empress vibe from this place."

Writing a self-insert GFL fan fic about wanting to become a T-doll but got turn into a Sangvis Ferri ringleader instead and forced to fight the T-dolls but I don't want to so instead I just fight them a bit to rile them up then let them beat my ass because I like seeing them fight and be badasses

When I talk about "fat stacks" this is what I mean

She is truly the People's Princess

⚡Shocking truth⚡ about fish lice: I've written a post about Dolops discoidalis, a species of fish louse which also happens to be the first ectoparasite to be documented from the electric eel 🧪 #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/10/dolo...

Tired: Labubus Wired: Labouls Laboulbeniales are a group of fungi that live on the carapace of insects. One species - Rickia wasmannii - lives on ants, and they make their host less aggressive, especially towards other laboul-infect ants #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/04/rick...

Hirudinella is a genus of stomach flukes which are usually associated with the Wahoo. But species in this genus can be found in a wide range of pelagic fishes, including the Pacific bluefin tuna 🧪 #Invertebrate www.researchgate.net/publication/...

There's a species of apicomplexan parasite called Siedleckia nematoides which looks like microscopic version of those soft plastic grub fishing lure🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Ruri Rocks did a wonderful job at conveying the sense of curiosity and wonder about the natural world that got many of us into the natural sciences

Sometimes, parasitologists have to put their own body on the line in the name of science. In this case, a parasitologist played host to a nose leech for over a month to find out more about its life history 🧪 #Invertebrate dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2019/10/dino...

Arknights players crashing out in the comments: WTF she got a figure?? 😡 She's so bad for her rarity, and her in-game abilities and lore are weak 😠😠🤬 Me, who don't play Arknights: OMFG 👀 hawt snek lady who gives me brainrot is getting a scale figure omg omg 🥺😳😳 myfigurecollection.net/item/3045112

Crouching Parrot, Hidden Louse: The Kyloring (Pezoporus flaviventris) is a critically endangered species of Australian parrot, and it is host to Forficuloecus pezopori - a species of louse which lives only on the Kyloring and nowhere else. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/06/forf...

My co-worker told me about the time when she saw a duckling being eaten by a large carp at a pond - which gave me an opportunity to tell her about the giant catfish that hunts pigeons. See the paper about this behaviour here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=on7c...

Every time I watch this video, it makes me want to tie a giant saltwater surface fly that mimics a fledgling tern, and name the pattern something like "Tasty Tern" www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4px...

🦀🦀🦀 CRABMAN 🦀🦀🦀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5f...

So 鰂魚 is the Chinese name for crucian carp (Carassius carassius), but if you look it up on Google Translate, it translates it into "Quarry", possibly because it has associated that word with Quarry Bay (鰂魚涌) in the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island. So, yay machine translation???

I've written a post about Cynomorium songaricum, a holoparasitic plant found in the deserts of Inner Mongolia. So how does this plant disperse its seeds across the desert and reach the roots of its hosts? Well, with the help of some little friends. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/09/cyno...

Tactical Maid (made by Snail Shell Studio) - good quality figure overall, very nice details and accessories. The leg joints though are a bit loose, and the leg articulation are a bit iffy, all of which limits posing options without using the stand

The process behind this Salinella salve illustration. #Art #SciArt Concept sketch ➡️ Rough sketch ➡️ Clean line art ➡️ finished coloured illustration

Just watched an Animalogic video that: (1) continues to perpetuate the myth that birds peck the eyestalks off Leucochloridium-infected snails (NO ONE has ever seen this happen). And even starts a new myth by claiming: (2) this somehow "cures" the snail of its infection 😒🧪

Awww lil' huntsman spider why are you in my bathroom

Eschaton Envoy: Charybdis. The Charybdis emits a powerful wave of Glamour - its thirst is immense and can never be quenched. #Art #Illustration #Monster www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

So this ant...can give birth to male clones of its own species AND of a different species... then mates with the male clones of the other species to produce hybrid workers...and mates with males of its own species to produce new queens... 🐜 Yo these ants are wildin' 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Usually, when something or someone touches a Christmas tree worm's feathery radioles, it would immediately retract back into its hole. But not blennies and gobies - the worms consider those fishes as homies who are allowed to touch their radioles. #Invertebrate 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Salinella salve - an #invertebrate cryptid, lost to time. For more details about this strange organism, see: www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc... #SciArt 🧪

Impostor Stories: Cuckoo Bees and Cuckoo Birds #SciArt

Death by Ciliates: This paper reports on the death of a whitetip reef shark (Triaenodon obesus) at an Austria zoo. The cause of death was found to be parasitic scuticociliates, which had invaded the shark's cranium and ate away at its brain tissue. 🦈🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

There is a common misconception that a koala's brain only occupies 60% of its cranial cavity. This comes from studies conducted on chemically-preserved cadavers. MRI scans have shown that the brain of a live koala is significantly larger than previously reported. 🧪 www.publish.csiro.au/am/AM06034

Macrodinychus multispinosus is a mite that parasitises the longhorn crazy ant, but it does so in a very specific way. The mite latches onto developing ant pupae and suck out their lifeblood before they have a chance to develop into adults. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/11/macr...

Ichthyostracan Origins #Invertebrate #SciArt #PalaeoArt

A very specific meme for all the Myxoheads out there who have read the Monteiro et al. (2002) paper published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. #Invertebrate 🧪

Ruri Rocks really speaks to anyone who has ever been labelled as the "weird kid" at school for having an esoteric interest, or was discouraged by "responsible" adults, only to find out that not only is your special interest worthwhile, but that you can have a future in continuing to pursue it

擬恐竜図鑑 by @skumaco.bsky.social is such a delightfully creative piece of art, combining the best aspects of creature design and gastronomic appreciation, marinated with a sense of fun and whimsy.

Okay, time to check out what AliExpress has recommended to me lately

The vending machine isekai reaching new levels of "Reborn as an inanimate object" by containing a subplot about a guy who was reincarnated as an empty field

I've written a post about Myxobolus medusae - a myxozoan parasite that lives in the eyes of red-bellied piranhas. Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder, but this microscopic medusa is in the eye of a piranha #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/08/myxo...

Yeah I experienced that during the early stage of my thesis

From a lecture I'm currently writing about the history of #Invertebrate taxonomy. Those myxozoans do be tricky 🧪

The shark-sucker barnacle - Anelasma squalicola - is a barnacle with an unusual habit. Instead of filter feeding on plankton, it has evolved to parasitise deep sea squaloid sharks such as lantern sharks and Greenland shark 🦈 #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2014/09/anel...

Always and forever

Cyanobacteria during the Great Oxygenation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, which resulted in the mass extinction of many anaerobic organisms 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_O...

I've been reading about the history of #Invertebrate taxonomy in preparation for a lecture (and paper) that I'm currently writing. One of the things I have learnt from that is this. 🧪