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 ...

When Jason Weckstein looks at a bird, he doesn't see just a creature with feathers that flies. He sees the bird as a teeming community of tiny creatures, some of which live and feast on its feathers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Letters, also ...