… People exclude animals at their whim, they just do it and they don't report it.' That bad habit, he believes, is one of several that plague animal studies".
Ancient tapeworm eggs found in 270-million-year-old shark poop suggests these parasites may have plagued animals for much longer than previously known, researchers say.
South African scientists have developed a vaccine for the several different strains that plague their animals.
Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), denizens of Arctic seas, are known to live more than 200 years, yet they show few signs of the age-related ailments that plague other animals, including humans.
The egg case ranks as the earliest known evidence of tapeworm parasitism in vertebrates, indicating that this particular parasite has been plaguing fellow animals since the days of the massive supercontinent Pangaea.
We hypothesis that these geocoded points represented the suitable habitat for plague host animal and fleas that could spread Yersinia pestis.
A recently departed eccentric known as the Squirrel Lady brought a plague of the animals by dispensing pounds of peanuts at a time from the back porch, while the bushy-tailed beasts frolicked over her arms and shoulders.
If anyone knew anything about the plague of plastic animals it would be Ebbesmeyer – but when the Sentinel's moonlighting reporter contacted him in the summer of 1993, it was the first the oceanographer had heard of the toys.
The most worrisome discovery, however, were files that indicate the owner of the laptop was researching ways to utilize biological weapons, including a "19-page document in Arabic on how to develop biological weapons and how to weaponize the bubonic plague from infected animals".
This study was designed to investigate plague among resident animals in western Iran, specificallyregion localities along the border between the Kurdistan and Hamadan Provinces, where plague in wildlife has been repeatedly reported (enclosed by 47.900° and 48.284° north latitude and 35.4616° and 35.7829° east longitude).
