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

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a ...

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Wildlife advocates celebrated Friday’s release of a red-tailed hawk that had been treated for rat poisoning for the past four ...

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

Nutria, an invasive species, has caused erosion and loss of habitat in California and approximately 19 other states.

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

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 details ...

SUNY Geneseo has two active research labs on campus that utilize rodent animal models. I entered one of them in the spring of ...