The researchers observed that the maggots consistently preferred the rotten fruit over the fresh one. This behavior suggested ...

It had long-since become uninhabitable, piled high with rubbish, packaging and empty cat food pouches, which started to smell and become a home to maggots. Instead, she sat in the same place on ...

This electron-microscope image expose the spines, or "nanopillars," that poke up from the body of the rat-tailed maggot. The length and density of the spines vary as shown in this cross-section ...

Camera trap footage revealed which scavenging animal had found the rat, and how quickly. Native Australian scavengers ate more of the dead rats, and with them the flesh-eating maggots, than ...