Five cases have been reported and nearly 100 individuals have been quarantined as authorities seek to contain the infection.

A winter in Yellowstone leads to a rare sighting of a determined ermine and a reminder of the importance of protected natural ...

For years, a few tiny shrew specimens collected in Ethiopia puzzled researchers. They were noticeably smaller than any known species, yet the evidence was scattered across different expeditions and ...

Last autumn, I was canoeing in a quiet saltwater cove on the Maine coast when I realized I had a tiny stowaway onboard. A masked shrew (Sorex cinereus, also called the cinereus or common shrew) was ...

Joshua Short is a 4-time Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, from Chicago, Illinois. Not far from where he was raised in the Windy City is where he grew up professionally. He moved to the area in ...

Neuroscientists have discovered a feedback loop that modulates the receptivity of the auditory cortex to incoming acoustic signals when bats emit echolocation calls. The researchers show that ...

Wednesday night's Notre Dame basketball loss to North Carolina was far too familiar, and it left head coach Micah Shrewsberry talking for what felt like the billionth time about his team needing ...

The Annamites are a heavily forested mountain range spanning 1,100 kilometres through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Known as the ‘Amazon of Asia’, it is one of the continent’s most precious wildlife ...