As Brazil’s Atlantic Forest shrinks, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species appear to be shifting toward humans.

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 ...

Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how biodiversity loss is making mosquitoes bay for human ...

Human blood already comes in a bewildering variety of types, but researchers have now identified a new one so rare that only three people on the planet are known to carry it. The finding exposes just ...

Researchers working in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that mosquitoes captured deep inside nature reserves showed a striking ...

As deforestation shrinks Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species are increasingly turning to human blood.

Researchers believe mosquitoes in a part of Brazil where they would once have targeted a wide variety of creatures to feed on ...