Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife species and remember targets for several months. Image APOPO Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

The skull of a black rat (right) compared with a fairly complete skull of one of Timor's other extinct giant rats (left). The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct rats ...

When they arrived at our local animal facility, the males were about 1 month old and were housed in groups of five individuals in large plexiglass cages with free access to laboratory rat pelleted ...

The mass did not impede walking or seem to trouble the rat. We found no other abnormalities during our clinical examination. We took a blood sample for a complete blood count and small animal ...

When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo's skull were only found to be effective enough to handle eating a softer range of foods." ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.