If you’ve noticed a bug on your clothes, in your hair, in your kid’s hair, or on your pet, there’s no need to panic, as it might not be a louse. Many insects have a lice-like appearance and are often ...

Figure 1. Fossilized nits of chewing lice, tightly affixed to feathers of an enantiornithine bird, entombed in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. (a) Isolated barbs and regularly arranged ...