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SALEM, Ore. — March is “adopt a rescue guinea pig month,” and a Salem woman has opened a sanctuary for the fuzzy rodents just in time. Kristina Francis started Apollo Cavy Sanctuary last month, ...

First things first: the guinea pig is not a pig and it’s not from Guinea. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s talk about what these charming rodents, also called cavies, actually are. Their ...

March is "adopt a rescue guinea pig month," and a Salem woman has opened a sanctuary for the fuzzy rodents just in time. Kristina Francis started Apollo Cavy Sanctuary last month, fulfilling a dream ...

Learn more about these communicative and gregarious rodents. Laura Moss is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience writing about science, nature, culture, and the environment. Guinea pigs ...

It may seem a prestigious post for a rodent, but the guinea pigs that are fixtures in elementary school classrooms today were once ambassadors from a new land. The third-ever guinea pig skeleton found ...

Was it a wallaby? A Pigalope? Or, as one neighbor speculated, simply the ugliest dog ever seen? All 17-year-old Nicco Phillips knew was that a critter he'd never seen before at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday was ...

Roughly the size of a buffalo, a giant rodent that roamed the banks of an ancient Venezuelan river some 8 million years ago, dining on sea grass and dodging crocodiles, was an evolutionary sibling to ...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — March is "adopt a rescue guinea pig month," and a Salem woman has opened a sanctuary for the fuzzy rodents just in time. Kristina Francis started Apollo Cavy Sanctuary last month, ...