Artist‘s reconstruction of Mesophthirus engeli of elder development stage feeding on the dinosaur feathers from mid-Cretaceous amber. Chen Wang Anyone who’s had to deal with a lice infestation ...

Dec. 8, 2003 – University of Utah biologists twirled louse-infested bird feathers on an electric fan and flew pigeons and doves like kites on strings in a study that found small lice stick to ...

The parasites were found on dinosaur feathers from almost 100 million years ago. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- The oldest fossil lice yet unearthed have been found on ...

Geese, as it turns out (and most other wild birds for that matter) have lice. More specifically, feather lice. And, more significantly, almost directly related to the size of the bird. A louse on ...

They began with a single population of parasitic feather lice, split the population in two and transferred them onto different-sized hosts--pigeons with small feathers, and pigeons with large ...

And then he conduct his study, and then he found out these are two feathers from two different feathered dinosaurs. And now, of course, we also know lice, they will go to other hosts. Like ...

commonly called feather mites or feather lice. These critters eat away the feather shafts on the head, causing feathers to fall off and reveal the bare skin. Ectoparasites affect head feathers ...

Lice that live on other primates and birds are all very different looking and have adapted to their unique circumstances, surviving in their host's hair or feathers. For example, lice that live in ...

Curiously, though, the single fossil specimen appeared to be a close relative to feather lice found on modern birds, and the researchers who described it suggest that birds may have "inherited ...

But the researchers needed to know for sure. They put the lice on a plate of pigeon feathers to set the mood, primed the camera and waited. But the lice had stage fright. "There was a lot of trial ...