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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawacruise ship m/v Hondius off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina; a circular cutout shows an illustration of a hantavirus particle

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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawacruise ship m/v Hondius off the coast of Ushuaia, Argentina; a circular cutout shows an illustration of a hantavirus particle
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3 Dead Amid Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak, The Same Infection That Killed Gene Hackman’s Wife Betsy Arakawa

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Scientists Thought This Rodent Family Went Extinct 11 Million Years Ago – Then They Found Some In The JungleYoung male Laotian rock rat, Laonastes aenigmamus (

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Scientists Thought This Rodent Family Went Extinct 11 Million Years Ago – Then They Found Some In The JungleYoung male Laotian rock rat, Laonastes aenigmamus (
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Scientists Thought This Rodent Family Went Extinct 11 Million Years Ago – Then They Found Some In The Jungle

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The Biggest Rodent Ever May Have Weighed Nearly 500 Kilograms, And Had An Impressively Powerful Biteartist's impression of Josephoartigasia monesi, a large, pacarana-like rodent.

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The Biggest Rodent Ever May Have Weighed Nearly 500 Kilograms, And Had An Impressively Powerful Biteartist's impression of Josephoartigasia monesi, a large, pacarana-like rodent.
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The Biggest Rodent Ever May Have Weighed Nearly 500 Kilograms, And Had An Impressively Powerful Bite

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The Only Living Mammals That Are Essentially Cold-Blooded Are Highly Social OddballsNaked mole rats, huddling in a burrow.

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The Only Living Mammals That Are Essentially Cold-Blooded Are Highly Social OddballsNaked mole rats, huddling in a burrow.
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The Only Living Mammals That Are Essentially Cold-Blooded Are Highly Social Oddballs

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Rodents In The US Are Rapidly Evolving Right "Under Your Nose"An eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) emerging from its burrow.

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Rodents In The US Are Rapidly Evolving Right "Under Your Nose"An eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus) emerging from its burrow.
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Rodents In The US Are Rapidly Evolving Right "Under Your Nose"

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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad NewsThe "Chicago rat hole": An impression of a rodent in a Chicago sidewalk.

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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad NewsThe "Chicago rat hole": An impression of a rodent in a Chicago sidewalk.
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Scientists Studied The Infamous "Chicago Rat Hole" And They Have Some Bad News

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New York's Thriving Rats Have Developed A "New Language" To Deal With Life In The Big CityA rat in New York city eating food on a subway platform station.

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New York's Thriving Rats Have Developed A "New Language" To Deal With Life In The Big CityA rat in New York city eating food on a subway platform station.
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New York's Thriving Rats Have Developed A "New Language" To Deal With Life In The Big City

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Naked Mole-Rats: Bizarre-Looking Mammals That Defy Our Understanding Of Cancer And AgingNaked mole-rat emerging from a tunnel in the ground.

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Naked Mole-Rats: Bizarre-Looking Mammals That Defy Our Understanding Of Cancer And AgingNaked mole-rat emerging from a tunnel in the ground.
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Naked Mole-Rats: Bizarre-Looking Mammals That Defy Our Understanding Of Cancer And Aging

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Killer Fur: There’s Only One Poisonous Rodent In The World, And It Can Take Out An ElephantAfrican crested rat, a fuzzy small mammal with striped, spiky fur

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Killer Fur: There’s Only One Poisonous Rodent In The World, And It Can Take Out An ElephantAfrican crested rat, a fuzzy small mammal with striped, spiky fur
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Killer Fur: There’s Only One Poisonous Rodent In The World, And It Can Take Out An Elephant

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Meet The Subalpine Woolly Rat, Photographed And Documented In The Wild For The First TimeA camera trap image of a woolly rat on a log over a stream at night. The photo is in night mode and the animals eye's shine in the dark.

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Meet The Subalpine Woolly Rat, Photographed And Documented In The Wild For The First TimeA camera trap image of a woolly rat on a log over a stream at night. The photo is in night mode and the animals eye's shine in the dark.
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Meet The Subalpine Woolly Rat, Photographed And Documented In The Wild For The First Time

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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Speciesa squirrel eating a vole

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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Speciesa squirrel eating a vole
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Ground Squirrels Filmed Hunting And Eating Voles, A "Shocking" First For The Species

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Meet The Bristle-Spined Rat: A Bizarre-Looking Rodent That’s Long Baffled Scientistsbristle-spined rat stood up in a pile of leaves on the forest floor

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Meet The Bristle-Spined Rat: A Bizarre-Looking Rodent That’s Long Baffled Scientistsbristle-spined rat stood up in a pile of leaves on the forest floor
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Meet The Bristle-Spined Rat: A Bizarre-Looking Rodent That’s Long Baffled Scientists

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Forest Health Depends On The Personality Of Small Mammalsflop-eared mouse on a mossy log

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Forest Health Depends On The Personality Of Small Mammalsflop-eared mouse on a mossy log
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Forest Health Depends On The Personality Of Small Mammals

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First Ever Proof Of Non-Human Animals Using Old Memories To Solve Problemsgrey and white rat sniffing at some sunflower seeds

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First Ever Proof Of Non-Human Animals Using Old Memories To Solve Problemsgrey and white rat sniffing at some sunflower seeds
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First Ever Proof Of Non-Human Animals Using Old Memories To Solve Problems

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First-Ever Images Captured Of Rare, Coconut-Cracking Vangunu Giant Ratimage of a large rat on a leaf-covered log, captured using a night-vision camera, black and white

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First-Ever Images Captured Of Rare, Coconut-Cracking Vangunu Giant Ratimage of a large rat on a leaf-covered log, captured using a night-vision camera, black and white
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First-Ever Images Captured Of Rare, Coconut-Cracking Vangunu Giant Rat

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