Swimmers at one of Auckland’s most popular beaches are among the latest to find themselves “mauled by sea lice” as the small ...

Swimmers at one of Auckland’s most popular beaches are among the latest to find themselves “mauled by sea lice” as the small animals spread further along the city’s coastl ...

Beachgoers at some of Auckland‘s most popular swimming spots have been left covered with itchy red rashes, the result of ...

A recent study published in National Science Review reports the discovery of fossilized chewing lice eggs in mid-Cretaceous ...

We can see objects as small as 0.1 millimeters, and that means we can just about see these lice eggs in our hair ... There's three types of microscope: light, like this one here, and two types ...

“Seabathers eruption” is an itchy rash of the skin that appears mainly on covered areas soon after swimming in the sea, often caused by stings from sea lice, thimble jellyfish or microscopic ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lice have plagued humankind throughout history. Spreading from person to person by close contact, they latch onto hair ...

The evolution of ectoparasitism in insects has occurred independently multiple times, with parasitic species that feed on blood, feathers, or other ...

They infect his blood with Plasmodium and watch under a microscope as this parasite infects ... use of leeches in medical research. Infested by lice. videoInfested by lice In this short film ...