The outbreak of the rare, rat-borne illness has left three people dead and several others seriously ill after the outbreak on ...

No recorded cases of hantavirus in Africa, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi tells MPs after a deadly outbreak linked to a ...

Hantaviruses have most likely been around as long as rodents, but little was known about these pathogens before the 20th ...

Browse Island, a tiny bump in the sea off the coast of Western Australia, has become the focus of a world-first attempt to ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 18 of Aging-US on April 13, 2026, titled "Cross species activity of TERT human ...

This rare virus, typically transmitted by mice and rats, is in the news because of a suspected outbreak on a cruise ship.

Since the family of rodent-borne infections were identified in the 1950s, they have turned up all over the world.

Does an elephant really need to be that massive? Why aren’t there any giant insects? Why did animals in New Zealand evolve to ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, ...

For animals in ever-changing cityscapes, expanding their diet to include novel food items can be crucial, according to the ...

Forty species bear his name and he fears rats more than gorillas, yet Sir David Attenborough’s most remarkable achievement ...