Birds of a feather flock together and -- according to a new analysis -- so do their lice. A study of the genetic heritage of avian feather lice indicates that their louse ancestors first colonized a ...

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 small ...

Although chewing lice spend their entire lives as parasites on birds, it is difficult to predict patterns of lice distribution, new research reveals. Although chewing lice spend their entire lives as ...

Writer Christopher Norwood sat down with Ornithologist Jason Weckstein for this edition of "So Birds are beautiful, with their colorful feathers, graceful flight and sweet songs. But what about the ...

Each of my three visits to the goose check station this year has been interrupted by a somewhat unexpected and unrequested interruption. Geese, as it turns out (and most other wild birds for that ...

The British Museum of Natural History was in grateful receipt last week of a strange new gift—500,000 Mallophaga, the world’s leading collection of bird lice. The donor of the collection is ...

Camouflage in nature is nothing new. A wide variety of animals, like rabbits, birds and deer, are cryptically colored to blend in with their background and guard themselves from predators. Now ...

LOS ANGELES - The lowly louse may have a more impressive pedigree than once thought: Dinosaurs may have hosted the parasitic bugs, a study says. The findings, published Tuesday in the journal Biology ...