The slimy, segmented, bottom-dwelling California blackworm is about as unappealing as it gets—but get a few dozen or thousand together, and they form a massive, entangled blob that seems to take on a ...

Four people have died in Florida due to infections from Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium commonly known as "flesh-eating" for ...

The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...

Pepper, a feline owned by John Lednicky, a virologist at the University of Florida, recently discovered orthoreovirus on a dead rodent he had caught. Orthorevirus is a viral genus that’s known to ...