Jerboas and kangaroo rats evolved in different places on the planet, but adapted to living comfortably in deserts and fleeing predators swiftly thanks to their strong, springy hind legs. Strangely, ...

Black and brown rats behave differently, carry different zoonotic diseases, and have different impacts on people, he adds, so knowing how and when each species emerged in North America is relevant ...

As part of her post doctorate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Nicole Hagenah studied the role two different mole-rat species, the common and the cape mole-rat, play in contributing ...

An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York ... they captured 95 images of four different animals in the species using trap cameras, the first images to document the species.

a Belgian nonprofit that trains African giant pouched rats to detect unactivated land mines left over from wars in different countries. The organization explains that many types of rats could ...

Although transplantation to different species is expected to bring benefits ... produce offspring from eggs obtained by transplanting rat ovaries into mice. The researchers implanted rat ovaries ...