Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

Australia is home to many extraordinary creatures, from Antarctic emperor penguins washing ashore to thelargest great white sharkever recorded. Adding to this list of oversized wonders, construction ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants people to eat more invasive species. You can get nutria, wild pigs, carp and northern ...

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Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception. With its intelligence ...

Fly-tippers have seized on the disruption from Birmingham's bin strikes [PA Media] ...

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest diseases worldwide, causing over 10 million new infections each year globally. It is estimated that around 28% of the world’s new TB cases occur in ...

Rats successfully distinguished between two varieties of white wine, Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc, in a study led by researchers from the University of Trento, the University of Lincoln, the ...

Smugglers of pangolins, elephant tusks and rhino horn, meet your match: the sniffing rats. Conservationists in Tanzania are training the rodents to smell trafficked animal parts and illegal timber ...

Check out Lionsgate’s Big Freaking Rat trailer ahead of a release in cinemas stateside in April. The film is described as a horror-comedy and looks like tons of fun. In the film, ranger Brody ...

Mountains of rubbish blight the streets of the UK's second biggest city with no end in sight to a dispute that has been going on for weeks. Wherever you stand on the contentious issue of ...