Rodents are the subjects of the overwhelming majority of laboratory animal studies, and most laboratory rodents are nocturnal. The availability of a suitable diurnal rodent would provide a more ...

Rats are dismissed as vermin and blamed for being transmitters of diseases such as the bubonic plague. They also terrify many people and are incorrectly thought of as being dirty. But in East ...

Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already demonstrated the ability of the cat-sized rodents, which it calls “HeroRATs,” to sniff out landmines, tuberculosis, and even survivors among ...

Rats in particular hate the smells of both the green and white sage varieties. Simply sprinkle herbs onto soil, around outdoor plants, entryway crevices or crack around the house. The pungent ...

As cool weather hits for the season, rodents begin seeking shelter in places like sheds, garages, and other outbuildings. And the problem is only continuing to get worse. This time of year ...

Trailing behind the fluffy animal, however, is a tail longer than the rest of its body combined, more than 6 inches long, ...

Batten down the hatches. They’re on their way. We’re talking about rodents, mice and rats, which are formidable enemies to the food industry especially when fall brings cooler weather.

No one wants to find rats or mice around their house. Once you find yourself dealing with rodents setting up residents in or around your home, you'll find it incredibly hard to get rid of them.

Rats, infamous for their unwelcome presence in gardens where they breed and scavenge, can easily make the leap from your garden to the inside of your house. These vermin are masters of concealment ...

Rodents explore their environment by stroking surfaces with their whiskers, visually scanning, and incessantly sniffing. Mercado discovered that studies on vocalizations that also monitored ...

The dangerous legacy of the civil war that ravaged the country for almost three decades still leaves terrible wounds. An ...

The fen raft spider has a brown or black body with white or cream stripes along the sides. With a span of up to almost three inches (8cm), they are the largest of the UK’s 660 native species of spider ...