(CNN) — For a long time, rats have taken the heat for the waves of plague that killed millions of people across Europe starting in the 14th century. But now suspicion is falling on another rodent with ...

Rats have been blamed for spreading a deadly disease called the Plague for hundreds of years but now scientists think that gerbils were actually to blame. The Plague, also known as the Black Death, ...

The ancient city of Babylon had walls so thick, they couldn’t be breached. Ha-ha, the Babylonians could yell down at would-be invaders. No conquest for you! Alas for the Babylonians, their fortified ...

For over half a century, an army of researchers warily scanned the Kazakhstan desert in the former Soviet Union for signs of a ferocious threat to public health... gerbils. The furry creatures ...