Mikhail Rusin is perhaps the world's greatest hamster champion. The European hamster is bigger and feistier than the varieties more commonly found in pet stores. They are also critically endangered.

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Say hello to Ridley, my new Campbell Dwarf Hamster! Watch as this tiny bundle of energy explores, plays, and steals hearts. Don’t miss Ridley’s cutest moments! #CampbellDwarfHamster #PetHamster ...

New models suggest that Ceres, the asteroid belt's largest object, once had a radioactive core that could have sustained life in the dwarf planet's hidden subsurface ocean billions of years ago. When ...

A briefly TikTok famous and very old hamster passed away just as the internet was falling in love with her. Her owner first started posting about her in June, and by the end of July, the era of ...

Viral 'Grandma' Hamster Makes People Realize They've Never Seen an Old Hamster Before originally appeared on PetHelpful. Most animals that go viral do so while they're still on Earth, but one ...

A woman online has introduced the world to a unique pet. Her recent TikTok video has challenged the common perception of how long hamsters live by introducing the world to "grandma Bambi," a senior ...

How many dwarf planets are there in our solar system? The recent discovery of 2017 OF201 makes the tally anywhere between five and 18, plus hundreds of potentially undiscovered ones, depending on whom ...

There are two main species of hamsters kept as pets: Syrian (Golden) hamsters and Siberian (Dwarf) hamsters. Syrian hamsters are solitary by nature. You shouldn’t put them together after they reach 10 ...

Hamsters are common family pets. They’re distant cousins of mice and rats. Their small size and cleanliness make them easy to care for. Hamsters are good pets for children or first-time pet owners.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Parental care is costly. It uses up precious time, energy and resources—and in the animal world, it’s usually the moms ...

A possible cousin of Pluto seems to be circling the far reaches of the solar system. The dwarf planet candidate 2017 OF201 travels in a superwide orbit, with the sun relatively near one end of its ...