Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after ...

A recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Conservation Science reveals that African giant pouched rats could play ...

QUANG NINH PROVENCE, VIETNAM Rats are considered a nutritious delicacy and are trapped in nets in farmers’ fields. Photograph by Ian Teh “It is the tail,” says Laurinda Williams, who breeds ...

Scientists say their research shows the rats have a similar sense of smell to dogs, but they're able to fit in tighter spaces.

From their burrows, rats typically will travel as far as about 150 feet, nearly half the length of a football field, in search of food and water. The biggest rat that Bobby Corrigan, a world ...

Let's take a look at the remarkable comebacks of seven more animal species that were once thought to be extinct.

Giant African rats, trained for scent detection, could assist in fighting illegal wildlife trade. A recent study shows they can detect wildlife products, offering a cost-effective alternative to ...

Rats host the worm and pass larvae through their ... Crews have not seen the snails recently in the field, he said. “It might look like a spot of dirt on the leaf, but it’s actually riddled ...

The rat is the preferred model organism in many fields of biomedicine, such as toxicology testing. But when it comes to disease models, rats have been upstaged by mice, which traditionally were ...

The rats are trained to detect a chemical compound ... Magawa is capable of searching a field the size of a tennis court in just 20 minutes - something Apopo says would take a person with a ...

In an effort, for example, to determine if the blind mole rat, a subterranean rodent that builds a home of branching tunnels with no exits to the surface, can sense the magnetic field, Tali Kimchi ...

rodent contraceptive trials in the field.” Parsons said he hasn’t heard of using possums to control rats. But he said rats reproduce prolifically, with 12 pups possible from a single pair of ...