The discovery of plague DNA in a 4,000-year-old sheep bone is rewriting the story of one of humanity’s most feared pathogens, ...

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New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Kiyoshi Kawashima, a major general and former chief of the bacteria production division in Japan's Unit 731, admitted in his testimony that in central China, Unit 731's expeditionary force colluded ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

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Fleas are a nuisance that affect various animals, including dogs, cats, rabbits, chickens, hamsters, and guinea pigs. These tiny, wingless parasites thrive by feasting on the blood of animals or ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

Service dogs are welcome in grocery stores, but if you try to bring your pet inside, you might catch some dirty looks. Here's ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...