Researchers noticed that the final act of grooming in our hairy ape ancestors involves protruding lips and slight suction to remove debris or parasites. While humans evolved to have less body hair, ...

Most of us do it, be it romantic, familial, friendly or formal, but kissing among humans and where and how it originated is ...

You might think of snails as the little shelled creatures that you find crawling in your garden, or even as a delicacy of ...

Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii increased the host cell’s metabolic activity, offering insights into potential ...

Scientists speculate kissing was established among human ape ancestors as they started spending considerable time on the ...

Without iron, parasites rapidly die. And getting that iron from the human red blood cells in which the parasites live and ...

brucei parasites are found in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Many wild mammals in Africa harbor the parasite without showing signs of disease, and thus serve as reservoirs. In humans ...

Richard Gerhold, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM (Parasitology), associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, discusses some ways that humans can help com ...

The reduction of body hair in early humans was probably influenced by several factors, such as regulating body temperature, ...

Prof. Leslie Leiserowitz first became intrigued by malaria when he was a young boy in South Africa. His father, who scouted ...

According to a new study by the University of Warwick, kissing may have evolved from grooming behaviors practiced by ancient ...

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving 'drunk' after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be rare and accidental. Ecologists now challenge this ...