The May 2026 outbreak of a type of hantavirus, called Andes virus, among passengers of a cruise ship has brought rodent-borne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you see a nutria, notify authorities. [CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE] Nutria, a large invasive rodent species, was ...

The US government is adopting the Viking mentality in its new approach to curbing the ever-growing population of a massive rat-like rodent — recommending that people try to turn it into a delicacy.

In a global study, researchers have identified that most reservoirs of rodent-borne diseases tend to live exclusively or occasionally in or near human dwellings, show large fluctuations in their ...

Climate change is likely to drive rodent-borne arenaviruses into parts of South America that have never faced these diseases, ...

WASHINGTON — It has the face of a rat and the tail of a skinny squirrel — and scientists say this creature discovered living in central Laos is pretty special: It's a species believed to have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult nutria (Myocastor coypus). (Wolfram Steinberg/Picture Alliance via Getty Images) (picture alliance via Getty Images) The ...

Hispaniola once had among the highest diversity of rodents in the Caribbean. Today, only one rodent species remains, and its prospects for survival are uncertain. New carbon dates place the blame ...

In the ’90s cartoon “Pinky and the Brain,” the titular Brain — a scheming lab mouse with an outsize noggin — fantasized about taking over the world. A study published Thursday in Science posits that ...

Scientists estimate that only 10% of all the species on the planet have been described. Among our closest kin, mammals, that number jumps to 80%, but even this well-studied group still holds mysteries ...

Learn about a small rodent-like mammal whose descendants survived the extinction event that killed all non-avian dinosaurs.