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New findings from the Chagos Islands are a perfect parable for the Anthropocene.
Rat baits are widely used to keep rodent pests at bay. But many Australian reptiles are resistant to the poison, potentially spreading these deadly compounds up the food chain.
Animals do so much work for humans, from farm animals who die to feed us to service animals helping veterans with PTSD. It's time we gave back by providing humane living and working conditions.
Elephants have the highest count of olfactory receptor genes of any species tested to date. This suggests that they may be the best smellers in the animal kingdom.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
Releasing just 100 mice carrying a faulty gene designed to stop them reproducing can remove an entire population of 50,000, a new study shows, paving the way for new eradication efforts.
Agricultural pests are one of the key factors affecting small holder farmer production. Focus is normally put on invertebrate pests, but rodents can do severe damage to crops as well.
Animals that group together to fight off evolutionary pressure may actually evolve faster.
Cats, rats, foxes and other mammal predators have been implicated in 60% of the world's animals extinctions.
Rats foul our food, spread disease and damage property, but we know very little about them. A biologist explains how he tracks wild rats in New York City, and what he's learned about them so far.
Rats have lived with us for thousands of years.
An expedition to the Solomon Islands to investigate rare monkey-faced bats and giant rats will help preserve these remarkable species.
Plague, one of the deadliest diseases in the world, has been reported in several African countries in the past decade.
We all know that stress can wreak havoc on your health but what does it do to your genes?
In many of the workplaces I visit as a neuroscientist, stressed workers behave much like addicted lab rats. But you don't have to quit the rat race to start feeling better at work.
Research published this week shows saving wildlife is much more complicated than killing introduced predators. Killing predators often doesn't work, and is sometimes actually worse for native wildlife.
When we figure out how places connect geographically, local maps in the brain join into a single, overarching map.
Altruistic behaviour is not just for humans, lab rat behaviour test shows.
Memories can be selectively removed in rats with an altered memory reactivated in its place, according to a new study by…
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