When we hear about the "black death," a couple things come to mind: the death of tens of millions of people, and ... rats. Our history teachers taught us that the epidemic from 1347-1353 was likely ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Nine-month old brothers Pandoro and Tiramisù survey London’s newest art institution, The Gerbil Museum (photos courtesy museum trustees Filippo and Marianna) Pandoro and Tiramisù are not your ordinary ...

Scientists have figured out how to make gerbils smarter and hope the findings can be applied to you. Dietary nutrients found in a wide range of foods ranging from infant formula to eggs increase brain ...

Gerbils are a beloved classroom pet, but they might also be deadly killers. A study now claims that gerbils helped bring bubonic plague to Medieval Europe and contributed to the deaths of millions.

In mammals such as rodents that raise their young as a group, infants will nurse from their mother as well as other females, a dynamic known as allosuckling. Ecologists have long hypothesized that ...

Chinese authorities are using contraceptive pills to cut down the number of gerbils in a north-western province plagued by the rodents. Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to ...