A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue, kill thousands of people per year. In 2023 alone, malaria killed over ...

The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day. Researchers from Rockefeller ...

Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...

A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life.

Mosquitoes are ectothermic and typically become less active as temperatures drop. Some species are more cold-tolerant than ...

The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in ...

A rare fossil find shows how far the origins of extant mosquito species go back. In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous ...

Flowing nearly 650 miles through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, the Tennessee River is one of the most important waterways in the South. From its headwaters in the Appalachian ...

For the first time in recorded history, mosquitoes have been discovered living in Iceland, a country long thought to be one ...

The fight against malaria has stalled after two decades of progress, with climate change and population growth among factors ...

Cuts to the world’s biggest funder of malaria prevention, including by the UK government, could lead to almost a million more ...