Officials working to combat wildlife smugglers may have a new, furry tool to help sniff out illegally trafficked items: giant ...

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 ...

This likely explains why, between the weeks of May 28 and June 4, weekly rat complaints in the 6th Ward increased by five. Another notable factor is the current construction at Ryan Field ...

Enter the rat strike team. With an array of traps, field cameras and peanut butter — irresistible bait to the rodents — St. Paul officials and experts from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vibroacoustics is a field of study where ultrasound vibrations are used to create clusters of particles in the air. It’s possible, the team hypothesizes, that mice and rats are doing the same ...

The Johnstown Mill Rats named Sean Stevens as the Prospect League team’s new field manager. Mill Rats General Manager Sarah ...