Earth’s Largest Rodents Were Smaller Than We Once Thought
Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less than an ounce to stocky capybaras pushing 175 pounds. But…
Modern rodents range in size from pygmy mice weighing less than an ounce to stocky capybaras pushing 175 pounds. But…
Cats, so often, are a mystery, even to those that know them best. Why do they sleep so much? Why…
In its first report, a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization to advise on the origins…
But determining when, and in whom, the mutations first appeared requires many more virus samples from farm workers, local residents…
At first, it seems like any other unboxing video on YouTube: A young man presents the viewer with a sealed…
An equine influenza virus likely caused the mysterious respiratory disease that has killed at least 95 wild horses and forced…
Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, has started to worry about mousepox. The virus, discovered in 1930, spreads among…
Sally Poncet first came to South Georgia in 1977. Back then, she said, the sub-Antarctic island was as gorgeous as…
But the government may not be able to safely move funds or supplies into reserves in occupied areas, leaving the…
At the end of the last ice age, South America was home to strange animals that have since vanished into…