Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

In Eating Behind Bars, author Leslie Soble details how food is used to further punish incarcerated people in the US ...

Missouri animal health experts warn of a potential reintroduction of a flesh-eating fly in the state within a year or two.

Missouri animal health experts warn of a potential reintroduction of a flesh-eating fly in the state within a year or two.

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and ...

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Flesh-eating maggots spotted 70 miles south of Texas … Texas Politics / Sep 22, 2025 / 06:27 PM CDT ...

Kansas health officials have alerted providers about the potential for human cases of New World screwworm. New World screwworm maggots burrow into and feed on the living flesh of animals and humans.

In early August, a Maryland resident who had traveled to El Salvador was diagnosed with New World screwworm — a flesh-eating parasite — being the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in U.S.