Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Atlantic Forest on the eastern coast of South America is home to about 40 different mosquito species. Dr. Sérgio Lisboa ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is needed. Reading time 4 minutes The mosquito scourge might somehow be even ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

Stretching along the Brazilian coastline, the Atlantic Forest is home to hundreds of species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and fishes. However, due to human expansion, only about a third of ...

Researchers who trapped mosquitoes in a region of the Brazilian rainforest found that they are turning to humans for sustenance as deforestation takes away the habitat of their animal hosts. Blood ...

Mosquitoes’ thirst for human blood is rising, reveals new research. Scientists found that some of the blood-sucking insects really are targeting humans more than other food sources. They say the ...

Scientists found that some mosquitoes really are targeting humans more than other food sources, but it could be a matter of convenience as biodiversity dwindles and other food sources are displaced ...