Scientist found 230 types of giant viruses that were previously unknown in oceans around the world. That's not a bad thing, ...

White oil is another remedy for head lice. It blocks the lice’s breathing holes, causing the parasites to suffocate. The ...

Numerous insects, including mites, lice, fleas, ticks, and bed bugs, can inhabit or visit the human body. These creatures ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

As school starts back up, so does the number of head lice cases. But humans have been dealing with the parasites for millennia—and that may continue indefinitely. Head lice are some of our ...

challenging the theory that humans quickly caused their extinction. Paleontologist Thaís Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths through hunting, along with many other massive animals like mastodons ...

Maybe we should think of lice that way: as what they are not. They are not bedbugs, or ticks, or fleas. They do not fly, they do not jump, they cannot survive for long apart from a human head ...

Some of them are giant pools of human waste and garbage ... where insects are rife in the summer. Scabies and lice are at epidemic proportions, he said, but other fungal, bacterial and viral ...

Body lice lay eggs on clothing, feed on human blood, and can transmit disease to humans. People without housing and living in crowded conditions have a higher risk of body lice than others.

Unlike head lice, which live and breed on human scalps, body lice live and multiply in the seams of human clothing and bedding, hopping onto their human hosts to feed on their blood several times ...