A 20 million-year-old flea trapped in amber is thought to be carrying the ancestor of Black Death.
Residents of a remote island community have been plagued by mysterious screams and howling noises.
CDC inspections have raised red flags over the handling of deadly viruses being kept in government labs.
A massive plague of amphibians has descended upon China's Liaoning Province following heavy rainfall.
Donna Ayres claims she has been plagued by paranormal experiences for more than five years.
Scientists believe that rats may not have been responsible for the Black Death in Europe after all.
Local residents have been forced to seal up their homes to keep out tens of thousands of the red insects.
Wrestling events in the ancient world appear to have been plagued by bribes and match fixing.
The strange grinding noise is the latest in a long series of similar sounds recorded all over the world.
Some Israelis have found a novel new way to deal with the locust swarm - cooking and eating them.
More than a dozen skeletons have been discovered buried underneath a busy part of central London.
Sir David Attenborough has expressed his concerns over Earth's ever increasing human population.
Cath Gamester has suffered for two years from a condition that repeats festive songs in her head.
An Oregan man has contracted the infamous Black Death plague after being bitten by a cat.
Buddhists in China enacted a 'compassionate release' by unleashing hundreds of snakes near a village.
Paranormal activity and sightings of ghosts have plagued a New Zealand college and castle.
A species of giant flea-like insect would have fed on the blood of dinosaurs over 165 million years ago.
Over 30 years on, the terrifying events that plagued the Hodgson family still resonate to this day.
Earth is not the only planet to experience hurricanes - storms on Jupiter and Saturn put Irene to shame.
Berlin is being plagued by large numbers of wild boar roaming the streets and causing chaos.