You may be able to guess how the louse scientists interpret the data from their parasitic charges. When Homo erectus moved into Asia and became isolated from our own ancestors, their lice became ...

Amador Flores Vargas was rushed to hospital after being bitten by the blood-sucking bugs, but he was unable to fight off the ...

The DNA revealed two geographic clusters of lice. One was present in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Among these lice, the researchers found a close genetic link between Honduras and Mongolia.

Asia and other countries in the 14th century. A study published Tuesday in PLOS Biology suggests that body lice may be more efficient at transmitting the plague bacteria, Yersinia pestis ...

That revelation shows the insects’ migration patterns mirror the New World mixing of their human hosts from East Asia and Europe. “It is amazing to think that the lowly louse can shed a bit of ...

which are staging a comeback in rich countries. Linnaeus named the human louse Pediculus humanus in 1758, but later realised there might be two sorts. Debate has gone on ever since. Those who ...

"We humans, we migrate and we take the lice with us," she summarizes. First, some 15,000 to 35,000 years ago, when humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America, there were ...

For more than a century, scientists have been puzzled as to how an obscure louse native to Australia ... believed it was linked to people from Asia bringing the dingo to Australia in ancient ...