When it comes to human fatalities, the deadliest creature on the planet isn’t a shark, snake, or lion—it’s the mosquito, according to Gates Note. Despite its small size, this tiny insect is ...

To this day, insects smaller than a child’s thumbnail remain the most dangerous nonhuman animals on the planet. Start with their physical equipment, especially in the mosquitoes that are the ...

Neurogeneticist Matthew DeGennaro is the first scientist to make a mutant mosquito — a game-changing tool in researching ...

Scientists at Macquarie University have developed the Toxic Male Technique (TMT), a biological pest control method to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes. Genetically engineered male mosquitoes ...

Mosquitoes in 2015 were linked to the deaths of an estimated 830,000 people around the world, making it the deadliest insect for humans, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ...

making humans the second most deadly animal (and the deadliest mammal) to humans. We are not quite our own worst enemy — but we're pretty close. Mosquitoes — the pesky bugs that suck blood and ...

Female mosquitoes are some of the deadliest organisms in the world due to their ability to spread infectious diseases through a simple bite. Mosquito-borne diseases such as yellow fever, Zika, Dengue ...

In fact, alligators don't even place in the to 10 deadliest animals to humans. But the animal most commonly responsible for human deaths around the world may surprise you. Produced by Rob Ludacer ...

The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound.