A new study, for example, found that some lice in the Americas are hybrids of those carried there by Native Americans and others ferried across the Atlantic by European colonists. “We humans do ...

Lice have been bugging humans for as long as our species has been ... between 15 small sections of the louse genetic instruction book. The lice clustered genetically into two groups — one ...

Lice have irked humans for many centuries. In this 1497 woodcut printed in Strasburg, Germany, a man is de-loused. (Science & Society Picture Library via Getty Images) Head lice are considered a ...

Head lice have plagued communities for centuries across the world. They have evolved — and traveled — with humans to continually survive and find new hosts. Now, a new study suggests lice DNA ...

Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at an archaeological site in Brazil and an inscription on a 3,700-year-old ivory lice comb that might be ...

An engraving published in a book on street traders in 1810 shows ... As Clark says, the human-lice arms race will continue indefinitely. “It's a numbers game,” he says.

They are the oldest known parasites that feed on the blood of humans, so learning more about lice can tell us quite a bit about our own species and migratory patterns. [Related: Ancient ivory comb ...

In a seminal study, Reed and his team used modern lice DNA to trace the origin of clothing use back to around 170,000 years ...

But there's more to lice than their elimination. These parasites have been stowaways on our heads for so long that they've recorded our history as humans in their DNA. "We can think of human lice ...