Dan Blumstein was gently holding a yellow-bellied marmot pup, conducting research, when he first heard one scream. "I was sort of shocked by this scream and almost dropped this animal," he says.

"The thing that struck me was that every once in a while when we catch a baby marmot, they scream," Blumstein said. Screams, like those of the baby marmot, are created when animals hurriedly blow ...

Russian media report that there have been previous outbreaks of plague in Altai and that the consumption of infected marmot meat is a known transmission route. The public information campaign in ...

Russian media report that there have been previous outbreaks of plague in Altai and that the consumption of infected marmot meat is a known transmission route. The public information campaign in ...