While COVID-19 vaccines might have been oversold as the ultimate infection preventers, they did a solid job reducing severe illness. Now, researchers have discovered that a nasal vaccine might just be ...

An all-corn diet can quite literally turn a female hamster into a cannibal. A new study found that the European hamster, which once used to feast on a varied diet of grains, roots, and insects, is not ...

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Hamsters that have to survive winter outdoors in Siberia rev up their immune systems when days grow short, according to new lab tests. They even pump up their response to psychological stress. In the ...

Pregnant mommas must make a tough choice: preserve energy for themselves or invest it in their little ones. Now new research suggests that higher levels of the hormone leptin may fool a hamster’s ...

When these hamsters decided it was time to play they got more than they bargained for. Almost 2 million people have watched video footage of two tiny Roborovski hamsters being flung at top speed to ...

Hamsters seem to have a more optimistic outlook when they have access to creature comforts. Photo: Steimer, C./Corbis Hamsters have feelings, too. Just as people are inclined to interpret the world ...

The ground squirrel and the Syrian hamster, two rodents that hibernate in the winter, do not feel cold in the same way as non-hibernators, such as rats or mice. Researchers have discovered that ...

The hamsters were initially imported from the Netherlands. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Imported pet hamsters carried the ...

If you put a hamster on steroids, he'll attack other hamsters more quickly and more often, and bite a lot. Cut him off and you might think he'd mellow out. Not so. Hamsters on steroids remain ...