Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned ...

An invasive rat-like rodent from South America has invaded ... and they are destroying wetlands. These animals look similar to beavers, with the distinction of highly arched backs and 'long ...

Is rat sibling rivalry a real thing? When watching this video at first glance, you might think competing over food is typical ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.

Of 101 samples collected from dead animals between September 2023 and May 2024, 85 percent tested positive for rodenticide, ...

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

“Everybody’s first impression is that the rats are our enemies,” Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, says of the animals ... like Carolina (the rat who just ...

Although declared extinct in 1994, people claim to have seen desert rat-kangaroos since, and analysis of their museum ...