Three taxidermied penguins preside over Room 426 in Allwine Hall, standing atop a row of metal cabinets in the back corner.

Leprosy might be commonly known as a biblical disease, but a study just found that red squirrels transmitted the disease to humans in the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom. And the fur trade ...

leprae strains between humans and red squirrels during the Medieval Period.” As Winchester was well known for its leprosy hospitals and connections to the fur trade, the researchers speculate ...

In medieval England, red squirrels were popular pets and their fur was widely used to trim and line clothes Humans may have caught leprosy from squirrels in medieval times, researchers say.

With DNA from those hair samples and images from motion-activated ... This evidence - that their comeback has given a boost to red squirrel survival - could indicate that they are able to catch ...

When parted, the white hairs of the belly show gray bases, the fur on the upper parts of the body has a reddish ... and pilfers from the caches of the red squirrel. Both species of flying squirrel ...

An animal sanctuary is hoping to help reintroduce red squirrels to the wild through a breeding programme. Suffolk Owl Sanctuary in Stonham Aspal near Stowmarket in Suffolk has recently built an ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Maricopa Audubon sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to protect habitat essential to the survival and recovery of southeast Arizona’s ...