Since June, neighbors have flooded social media groups with reports of dead squirrels and rats they’ve spotted near ... Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Aubrey Puyear has a 4-month-old beagle ...

While enormous rats might be many people's nightmare, these huge rodents could be a key weapon in the battle against the trading of illegal wildlife goods. African giant pouched rats can be ...

As children get ready to go trick or treating, police are urging people to be careful after rat bait was slipped into Halloween bags in Windang last year. Nadine Morton covers emergency services and ...

Even if mice were taken from Universe 25 and placed into another mouse apartment block with a much lower density of residents, Calhoun explained, they still showed these aberrant behaviors.

Upon closer inspection, she realised what it was - Ratsak, a rat poison with Brodifacoum used to kill rats and other vermin. While Ratsak doesn’t have a large enough dose to kill a human ...

A brand new virus, which may be able to jump to humans, has been detected in a mouse in Florida. The virus is a type of jeilongvirus, which have previously only been found in Africa, Asia ...

As children get ready to go trick or treating, police are urging people to be careful after rat bait was slipped into Halloween bags in Windang last year. Nadine Morton covers emergency services ...

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat is cute, it’s harder to deny the impressive power of its nose. Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already ...

Now, a species of giant pouched rat has been trained to fulfill a similar role in finding illegal wildlife products. The rodents who underwent the training are African giant pouched rats and ...

African giant pouched rats have been trained by scientists to recognise the scent of illegal animal products such as rhino horn and elephant ivory. Demand for these products is decimating ...

African giant pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) could be the next line of defense in the illegal wildlife trade. A team of researchers have trained these three-pound rats to pick up the scent of ...