coated in chocolate and wrapped up in the packaging – all in an attempt slip past visual and X-ray inspections. This is where the rats and their acute sense of smell come in. According to new research ...

It might be a first in the history of Dallas politics, a sight containing decades of both new and old leadership within ...

Researchers trained African giant pouched rats to detect commonly smuggled items ... They’ll paint ivory tusks black, or coat them in chocolate and wrap them in candy bar-like packaging. They’ll hide ...

To make things harder, the researcher gave the free rats some chocolate chips – their favourite snacks. The rats then had to choose between gobbling all the chocolate themselves before going to ...

Who wants to catch rats and keep them? Research scientists? More bewildering, where does one release a rat once you catch it?

While enormous rats might be many people's nightmare, these huge rodents could be a key weapon in the battle against the trading of illegal wildlife goods. African giant pouched rats can be ...

It's always a worry if you've spotted a mouse indoors or a rat in the backyard. And learning how to get rid of mice or how to get rid of rats can be a challenging and often expensive task at the ...

A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office, told The Washington Post. Rats are a nuisance in ...