Researchers found first strain of henipavirus in North America. What you need to know about new virus in wild animals that ...

Researchers recently announced that a deadly virus has been found in short-tailed shrews in the United States.

While the function of the toxin is not clearly known, it probably serves to immobilize small animals and stun larger ones. A major part of the diet of the short-tailed shrew consists of small ...

Researchers at an Auburn University lab collected a mole-like animal that was found with a new species of henipavirus named after the Alabama town where the specimen came from, according to the ...

Polytypic (2 ssp.; nominate in North America). Length 10". Plump, short-tailed quail with gray plumage; prominent teardrop-shaped head plume or double plume in both sexes. Adult male: chestnut ...