On the East Coast, especially in major cities, rats are seen as a nuisance. On the West Coast in Portland, they receive ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

The nutria is a large, semiaquatic rodent species native to South America that has ... Its exact population, though, is unknown. The rat-like behemoth is larger than a muskrat and smaller than ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert—and Flinders University researchers have ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have discovered new ...

but lurking beneath the glitz and glamour of the city that never sleeps are 3 million resilient rats that have cemented their place as native New Yorkers. According to Orkin, the pest control ...

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 ...