Figura writing about rainbow trout egg collection, gizzard shad and frisky birds Published: Apr. 10, 2013, 6:25 p.m. DEC staff strip wild rainbow trout of its eggs at the DEC-run fishway on the ...

Early bird doesn't always get worm, researcher finds. Competing against older brothers and sisters can be tough work, as any youngest child will tell you.

This is Leucochloridium, a parasitic worm that invades a snail's eyestalks, where it pulsates to imitate a caterpillar. The worm then mind-controls its host out into the open for hungry birds to ...

They don’t have teeth, but they do have a gizzard, where small rocks that the worm has eaten help grind up food. (Some birds do this as well, by the way, as did their ancestors the dinosaurs.