Early man left trail of lice
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Humankind&#39;s inexorable spread across the globe may have had an unwelcome side-effect - it brought us face to face with our ancient hominid relatives just long enough to catch their head lice.
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Elgin County has detected its first probable human case of West Nile virus. The Elgin-St. Thomas health unit said yesterday a 59-year-old Aylmer man is recovering at home after four days in a London hospital.
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When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in August 2000, he had more in mind than observing wildlife and catching salmon and Arctic char.
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A 50-year-old San Jose man is the Bay Area&#39;s first human case of West Nile Virus, Santa Clara County health officials confirmed Thursday.
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HWANGE NATIONAL PARK, Zimbabwe -- Wildlife guide Mike Scott followed footprints of one large animal after another -- elephant, buffalo, kudu, leopard, lion -- and then stopped suddenly, sniffing the air. ``Shall we follow our noses?" he said, heading toward a powerful stench that grew more noxious by the step.
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Two men, including the son of actress Annie Potts, spent a cold night on Mount Baldy after they lost their way in heavy fog, sparking a search that ended Monday when the two found a trail and hiked out of the wilderness.
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In the growing debate about when people first appeared on this continent, a leading archaeologist said Wednesday he has discovered what could be sooty evidence of human occupation in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than is commonly believed.
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Two hundred years after it was pulled from the silt of the River Thames, a bronze head of the Emperor Hadrian, below, ruler of the Roman Empire from 117 to 138, will leave the British Museum for the first time, bound for sites along the 73-mile wall he ordered constructed in Northern England to mark the Roman frontier, the BBC reported. The head, once part of a statue thought to have been displayed in London in 122 to commemorate Hadrianâs visit, is to be exhibited at Tullie House in Carlisle next month and at the Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum in Wallsend in April, before returning for the exhibition âHadrian: Empire and Conflictâ on July 24.
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A new method of killing head lice by suffocating them with a lotion that dries on the scalp like shrink-wrap appears to work as well as many conventional medicines, its U.S. inventor said on Tuesday.
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A chimp-sized human ancestor walked upright 6 million years ago, far earlier than anyone had been able to show before, researchers reported on Thursday.
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By JEFF BARNARD  GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A San Francisco man who got stranded with his family in the snowy wilderness had taken a wrong turn in the car down a logging road that is normally blocked by a gate, but vandals had cut the lock, authorities said Friday.
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The story of modern humansâ final interactions with the extinct Homo erectus may have been revealed by research into the evolution of lice.
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An 8-year-old boy who wandered away from his campsite over the weekend was found alive Tuesday in a rugged area with steep cliffs and narrow ravines.
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A pair of 2-year-olds who wandered out of a vacation home and into the Australian wilderness were found Monday &#151; scratched and dirty but unhurt &#151; after spending more than 24 hours outdoors.
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Area being scoured for missing adventurer is expanded to 10,000 square miles.
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NEW YORK  - A dermatologist in Menlo Park,  California, has developed a treatment for head lice that does  not use toxic chemicals, and doesn't require nit removal. In  early studies, it proved as effective as standard insecticide  lotions.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Correspondent | October 15, 2004. The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released