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 ...

Feather lice are small, wingless insects that spend their whole lives among the plumage of birds, eating feathers and flakes of skin. The discovery of a 44-million-year-old fossil louse with ...

Paleontologists have discovered that feathered dinosaurs were eaten alive by lice-like insects, according to a new study. The researchers looked at pieces of amber, roughly 99 million years old ...

The history of feather lice turns out to be a very robust example of convergent evolution, Johnson said. "Here we see how evolution repeats itself on different bird types," he said.

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 ...

Biologists drove the divergence of different-sized feather lice from a single population. In four years, the evolved lice had trouble mating with each other -- a sign of speciation.

Dec. 10 (UPI) --Paleontologists have discovered insects resembling modern lice on dinosaur feathers trapped inside 100-million-year-old amber fossils, the earliest evidence of lice-like parasites ...

Feathered dinosaurs were annoyed by tiny pests that are still familiar to many schoolchildren -- and their horrified parents -- today: lice. Scientists discovered previously unknown tiny insects ...

Some Dinosaurs Had Lice Researchers have determined that some dinosaurs had lice. ... the lice chewing on feather is much milder. SIMON: Wow. Yes, I'd say so. Was a tough world, wasn't it?

Lice that frequent the wing feathers of pigeons and other doves keep their grip when the birds take flight by hunkering down in a feather. The lice hide between the barbs sprouting from the ...

The researchers found, however, that lice in one area where it’s hard to preen on the head did not necessarily match feather color. “Birds can’t look at their own heads,” Dr. Bush said.