The evidence for gerbils – probably the Cape gerbil, Gerbilliscus afra – included a trackway consisting of 12 pairs of tiny tracks in a typical bounding gait pattern ...

You will never look at your pet gerbil the same way again. — -- Historians have long blamed rats for spreading the plague in Europe nicknamed the "Black Death" in the 14th century, but new ...

THE birds and the bees do it – and so, Matie scientists have discovered, does the hairy-footed gerbil. Stellenbosch University of doctoral student Chris Johnson has uncovered what he calls a ...

The gerbils were trained to press a lever if they detected rises in adrenalin, but it was then found they could not discern between suspects and frightened passengers. Sir Stephen made the revelation ...

After learning gerbils are on the no-fly list, Lodge, who now lives in Fort McMurray, refused to leave Thunder the Great behind. Instead, she rented a car and made the drive to British Columbia ...

When large animals like elephants , giraffes and crocodiles roamed what is today South Africa's Cape south coast hundreds of thousands of years ago, they were not alone. Far below their sight ...