Peek inside the burrow and discover a social rodent that lives in communities much like those of many insects.

Before the early 1900s, if it walked like a Christmas Island rat and talked like a Christmas Island rat, it probably was a Christmas Island rat. But if one of these now-extinct rats ever walks the ...

A team of scientists recently modeled the likelihood of hauling a species back from dead, using the Christmas Island rat, a large rodent that went extinct between 1902 and 1908, as their hypothetical ...

Identifying mice and rats correctly is crucial for effective pest control because these rodents have different behaviors and living habits. Roof rats are known to inhabit higher spaces, distinguishing ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps ...

One of the new species of tweezer-beaked hopping rat, Rhynchomys labo. Credit: (c) Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Just about everybody loves peanut butter. We put it on sandwiches and in candy, we ...

Both mice and rats are rodents, and some are even members of the same scientific family. When they are small, or when you only see traces of their presence, they can be difficult to distinguish.

Scientists have recreated the genome of the Christmas Island rat, which went extinct more than 100 years ago. But about 5% of the rat's genetic makeup could not be recreated, which means if the animal ...