A gerbil has been rescued from a house fire and given oxygen using a specially designed mask for pets. Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service attended the blaze in Tollgate Lane, Bury St Edmunds, at about 03 ...

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Chinese authorities are using contraceptive pills to cut down the number of gerbils in a north-western province plagued by the rodents. Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to ...

In the Middle Ages the bubonic plague killed millions of people across Europe. Rats have been widely believed to be responsible for the numerous outbreaks of Black Death. But now scientists think it ...

After teatime, at an hour when most people at Broadcasting House were probably on their fifth jolt of neat gin, the Commons got round to discussing the BBC crisis. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy crept ...

The pet rodent was covered in sawdust when it was rescued A keen-eyed council worker said a pet gerbil he discovered in a West Yorkshire skip had a "lucky escape". Michael Mchugh, 58, saw the animal ...

Plague in the Great Gerbils of Kazakhstan The underground world of Kazakhstan's great gerbils harbours a deadly secret: the bubonic plague. Instead of dying out with the Great Fire, the Black Death ...