A PET owner nearly died after being attacked by his hamster – with his frantic partner forced to prise the rodent off his ...

Hamsters would be very, very low on the list of household pets I'd expect to be responsible for an incident that led to the death of a human being.

Animal care technicians at Georgia State University observed a series of peracute deaths in a colony of 210 Syrian hamsters. Thirty-five animals residing in three animal rooms (two rooms in one ...

Nathan Halliday went into a deadly anaphylactic shock after Mochi, his Syrian hamster, had a seizure and clamped down on his ...

We’ve rounded up some fascinating hamster facts below. Syrian hamsters (also known as golden hamsters) live in dry habitats ...

A man has experienced a terrifying moment after almost dying when his pet hamster clamped down on his hand and would not let ...

European hamsters are a much larger relative of Syrian or dwarf hamsters that are kept widely as pets. Human influence on the hamsters' habitats is being investigated as the cause of the species ...

This study presents important findings on cold tolerance shared between hibernating and non-hibernating mammals, identifying a key molecule, GPX4, through multi-species genome-wide CRISPR screens. The ...