African striped mice are used to desert conditions but are showing dehydration as climate change heats up their environment.

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It’s quite easily passed on from one person to another. But it originally came from infected animals. It’s not yet certain which ...

The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

Conservationists are planning a mass extermination of the invasive mice threatening the biodiversity of Marion Island, South Africa. AP Conservationists are hoping invasive mice threatening the ...

While niche separation and relationships with environmental conditions of large mammals of the African savanna have been studied intensively, less conspicuous components have not received similar ...

Woe to the clueless predator trying to make a meal of the African crested rat, a rodent that applies poisonous plant toxin to sponge-like hairs on its flanks, a discovery recently made by Jonathan ...

SAN ANTONIO — Naked mole rats don’t get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them. "They really are from Mars, I think," ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them. 'They really are from Mars, I ...