Although we are just now beginning the winter season, small ruminant owners should still be regularly checking their animals ...

Archaeologists analyzing a Roman sewer at Vindolanda uncover evidence soldiers lived with chronic gut parasites despite ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Archaeologists have long known that life on the Roman frontier was harsh, but new microscopic evidence from Hadrian’s Wall ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle ...

Wild bees across the west face a growing threat from microscopic parasites. Last week an Oregon researcher visited USU’s Ecology Center to discuss her findings.

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Learn how parasites preserved in an ancient sewer reveal how disease spread among Roman soldiers.

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...