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A tiny but vicious creature that is rarely caught on camera and is known to carry deadly diseases has been recorded as it scurried across a Pennsylvania parking lot.The footage of the unsuspecting ...

In a study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working with partners in Africa and the UK, present a novel plant-host identification method that could ...

Those responsible for naming the Mustelidae family picked the right word. They are a weaselly bunch. Weasels, minks, badgers, otters, ferrets, polecats, and martens comprise the 70-plus species in the ...

This repository contains the host tools for controlling Greaseweazle: an Open Source USB device capable of reading and writing raw data on nearly any type of floppy disk.

Nimble, elegant and lithe, the common weasel is this country’s, and the world's, smallest carnivore. The male of the species is usually around 11 inches long, but so streamlined that it can squeeze ...