From the bumblebee bat to the Baluchistan pygmy jerboa, here are eight of the world's smallest mammals who thrive in a world ...

Scrub typhus is caused by the bacterium 'Orientia tsutsugamushi', which belongs to the rickettsia family. Severe illness due ...

Chiggers are found on grass, plant litter and bare soil across rural areas of Asia, and usually feed on small mammals such as ...

A shrew is a tiny rodent that looks like a ... [Nipah virus] has caused disease outbreaks across Southeast Asia since being initially detected in Malaysia in 1998, and it kills between ...

For the study, blood samples of people who reported fever were collected every six to eight weeks from August 2020 to July ...

Photos from Cook-Price, Petko, Makchai, Artchawakom and Suwanwaree (2025) Trail cameras scattered across an island along the southeastern ... several rat and shrew species, a variety of bats ...

Researchers spent two years documenting the island’s wildlife through a variety of methods — and their efforts paid off.

Chiggers are found on grass, plant litter and bare soil across rural areas of Asia, and usually feed on small mammals such as rats and shrews ... along with those of southeast Asia, Indonesia ...

Scientists identified the Camp Hill virus in shrews in Alabama ... fatality rates between 40 and 75 percent in outbreaks in Southeast Asia, including in Malaysia and Bangladesh.’ ...

From the Etruscan shrew, a creature so light it could rest ... and is native to western Thailand and southeast Myanmar. It mostly inhabits limestone caves and measures just between 1.1 to 1.6 ...

Echolocation is the process of using sound to sense what is around you. Humans have harnessed this ability through the use of technology like sonar which uses sound waves to locate underwater objects ...