Rats, notorious for being unwelcome guests in gardens where they breed and scavenge for food, can easily transition from your garden to the inside of your home, using it as a gateway. These pests ...

Rats, infamous for their unwelcome presence in gardens where they breed and scavenge, can easily make the leap from your garden to the inside of your house. These vermin are masters of concealment ...

SCHOLARLY RAT RESCUER: For the Last 20 Years, College Professor Has Been Helping Intelligent Lab Rats Find Good Homes The research report concluded the trained rats could now be assessed for ...

So with all the Dynamax action taking over Pokémon Go’s latest season, here are all of the active Promo Codes and how you can redeem them for yourself. Previously, players were able to redeem ...

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 ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared ... environment – what works within a lab setting might not necessarily ...

Naked mole rats — unpretty rodents that can live for more than 30 years — seem to have quelled the genetic ghosts that haunt other mammalian genomes. In mammals, roughly half the genome ...

Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly-sought elephant tusks, rhino horns, African blackwoodand pangolin scales. The rare wood is threatened and the ...

The rodents who underwent the training are African giant pouched rats and, despite their somewhat terrifying name, really only grow to be about 750 mm (about 2.5 ft) long from the tip of the nose ...

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 ...

A new study shows that African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been concealed among other substances. Image: APOPO Pangolin scales, elephant tusks, rhino ...

Still, training the rats in the lab to detect scents is only the beginning. Trainees have since ventured into mock warehouses and some have even deployed to real ports, says Szott, who is now with ...