The tiny parasites were likely around during the Age of Dinosaurs.

A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, ...

That happened some 170,000 years ago.

A new study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.

Study is first to combine 10 years of farms' sea-lice counts and 60 years of wild fish countsA new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.The Broughton crash has become ...

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Chemical shampoos and fine-toothed combs are no longer the only options for getting rid of lice.

Four years after the LouseBuster prototype made headlines when research showed the chemical-free, warm-air device wiped out head lice on children, a new study reveals that a revamped, government-cleared model is highly effective.

Researchers area using a biological weapon to fight salmon parasite. A few years ago, fish farms in Chile produced enormous numbers of salmon. Now the industry is on its knees as a result of several years of disease and devastation by lice.

Over the years, lice have evolved in parallel with their human hosts. Studying the differences between lice from different geographic regions can actually provide insights into how and when human populations migrated into those areas.

Like an unwelcome house guest or itinerant squatter, the human body louse shows up when times are bad and always makes them worse. Now scientists report that it has sequenced the body louse genome, an achievement that will yield new insights into louse -- and human -- biology and evolution.

Researchers hope a better understanding of the neurological system of the body louse through the mapping of its genome will lead to better control or elimination of the human parasite.