an innate and irreversible self-destruct button to prevent a species from overpopulating its habitat,” wrote Fredrick Kunkle ...

A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

posters and other materials asking Albertans to report rats and signs of rats. The Alberta Invasive Species Council is ...

The provincial and federal governments are reminding Albertans to "Rat on Rats!" with a new information campaign.

One of the UK’s largest breed of spiders have had the biggest mating season on record as efforts to re-establish the species ...

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

“Wildlife smuggling is often conducted by individuals engaged in other illegal activities, including human, drug, and arms trafficking,” Webb noted. “Therefore, deploying rats to combat wildlife ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

Maria Anna Caneva Saccardo Caterina The rat species has previously been trained to identify signs of tuberculosis and explosives and now 11 of them – Kirsty, Marty, Attenborough, Irwin ...

Now in its early planning stages, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s rat eradication campaign is targeting a total of four ...