Head lice are small, wingless insects that live in human hair. Their scientific name is Pediculus humanus capitis, and they have been a human pest for thousands of years.. Their full life cycle ...

Head lice are considered a nuisance — a pest to be evicted from the hair on your head or the head of a loved one with a special comb or shampoo. But there's more to lice than their elimination ...

First, some 15,000 to 35,000 years ago, when humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America, there were likely lice gripping their hair, along for the ride. So it confirms what ...

Now, a new study suggests lice DNA can help track human migration from continent to continent. Since humans have had hair, we've probably also had lice. The small parasites, ...

Humans and lice have coevolved for thousands of years. The oldest human louse known to scientists is a 10,000 year-old specimen from Brazil. Getty Images ...

Lice commonly dwell on people’s heads, clamping onto hair shafts, piercing scalps and drinking blood. Unable to survive away from human bodies, the parasites jump from one person to the next.

But another clue to when the first humans arrived in the Americas lives on our bodies—lice. The blood-sucking parasites persistently bedded down in human hair and moved with hunter-gatherers ...

First, some 15,000 to 35,000 years ago, when humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America, there were likely lice gripping their hair, along for the ride. So it confirms what ...

First, some 15,000 to 35,000 years ago, when humans crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Asia into North America, there were likely lice gripping their hair, along for the ride. So it confirms what ...

In fact, head lice have been clinging to human hair for as long as there've been humans — and likely even before that to the hair of our hominid ancestors. Support for LAist comes from.