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The child of Greg and Kimberly Malnory had been sitting in her car seat for 18 hours, covered in her mother's blood and ...

Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly rebound when it finally rains, biologists at the University of Cincinnati ...

Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of ...

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When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction within your body.

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A new mosquito species unique to Sri Lanka has been discovered through research, according to entomologist Gayan Sri Kumarasinghe of the ...

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