For a plant, life in Argentina’s Monte Desert is hard enough. Daily temperatures can fluctuate dramatically; it rarely rains, and there are few nutrients in the parched soil for a hungry plant. To add ...

Ganesha (aka Ganesh, along with a few other names) is among the Hindu religion's most revered gods and dates back more than 2,000 years. He first appears in text form around the time of Christ, and ...

A woman consumed a 'substantial amount of leftover crayfish' and later sustained a fever and lost the ability to communicate ...

African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

Rats are, in many ways, better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 ...

Bones dating back 25,000 years suggest that humans lived in extremely icy conditions in Tibet, which were previously thought ...

Hantavirus comes from contact with rodents, especially after exposure to their urine, droppings and saliva. Read about how common it is in California.

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A pair of comfy period-proof underwear designed to hold two tampons' worth of blood A pumice stone to remove limescale, hard ...

Officially, the ngudlukanta – also known as the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris) – is one of the many small ...

Hantavirus has been found in cotton rats in Florida. There is no treatment for hantavirus ... Arakawa died from hantavirus, which humans can get after contact with rodents. Hackman died from natural ...

Fish oil may reduce insulin resistance in non-obese individuals by modulating inflammation, according to a Brazilian study on rats. Omega-3 supplementation ... in non-obese individuals. Trials in ...