Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife ...

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 ...

And former Mayor Mike Rawlings calls it chocolate-covered rat poison. “There’s not one public official that I know that’s come out for these things, okay. Everybody says this is terrible ...

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 ...

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 ...