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If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now. A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long – three times the size of a ...

Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant kangaroo rat are recovering from near-extinction.

(WHTM) We usually don’t think of rats as animals in need of protection. If anything, we’re usually looking for ways to get rid of them. But one species of rat is in trouble, and needs our help. As ...

Indiana has a rich biodiversity with thousands of species in unique habitats, but growth and development have changed some of those fragile ecosystems and threaten the wildlife they support. IndyStar ...

Researchers have identified rodenticide in endangered California condors in recent years. Credit: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images In humanity’s war against rats, other ...

Wyoming isn’t immune to a rat invasion like the infestation taking place in Boise that one exterminator called “a nuclear bomb of rats.” Spikes in ...

Scientists have established that a special species of rats can detect Tuberculosis Bacilli (TB) bacteria just by smelling sputum of a patient. In the latest report published by The American Journal of ...

BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) – Rats and rodents were front and center at a public hearing today in Boise. As reports of a rat ...

One of the largest rats in the world has finally been caught on camera, almost four decades after it was first discovered. These gargantuan rats, named the subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap), ...