A lot of us will change our wardrobe to fit into a crowd, and the brood parasite known as the cuckoo has used evolution to do ...

The female cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis), for example, has evolved to look like a harmless, non-parasitic bird that lives in the same area, allowing it to sneak into host nests unchallenged.

The paper, by Daniela Canestrari at the University of Oviedo in Oviedo, Spain, and colleagues was titled, "From Parasitism to Mutualism: Unexpected Interactions Between a Cuckoo and Its Host." ...

C. canorus is known to have passed its eggs on to more than 100 host species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. When the cuckoo chick hatches, it ejects other eggs ...

In her new book about cuckoos, Cynthia Chris details the extensive history of everyone's favorite feathery brood parasite.

Caption Cuckoo finch and host chicks. Brood parasitism is costly for hosts because a cuckoo finch chick begs for food very vigorously as soon as it hatches, outcompeting the host parents’ own ...

These costs exert reciprocal natural selection on parasites and hosts, such that in many cases host-parasite interactions result in escalating coevolution between intimately tied and ...

The rare parasitic pollinator was once common to prairies ... female Suckley’s cuckoo bumblebees must fight or sneak into a host colony, then kill or subdue the host queen. The cuckoo bee then lays ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

A parasitic fungus takes over the brains of flies and controls them for its own sinister ends. Here’s the science behind the ...

This distinctive bee is unusual — a social parasite or “cuckoo” species that takes ... the worker bees feed and care for its own young. In doing so, cuckoo bumblebees help keep host bumblebee ...