Before the early 1900s, if it walked like a Christmas Island rat and talked like a Christmas Island rat, it probably was a Christmas Island rat. But if one of these now-extinct rats ever walks the ...

When pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls? This ...

A team of scientists recently modeled the likelihood of hauling a species back from dead, using the Christmas Island rat, a large rodent that went extinct between 1902 and 1908, as their hypothetical ...

A giant rat species, long considered lost to science, has been rediscovered alive in the remote Papua mountains after a 30-year absence. This remarkable find underscores the potential for hidden ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This species was first documented in 1989, but in their attempts to further study the creature, researchers had little to go off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. František Vejmělka with a subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap). This is the first time the species has been scientifically ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps ...

A rat-control bill died in the Idaho Legislature this year. Now two lawmakers are urging cities and counties to act on their own to fight the infestation.

Researchers had long feared that the Vangunu giant rat, native to the forests of the Solomon Islands, had gone extinct. Recently, researchers finally captured images of four of these creatures. The ...

A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

When California declared the San Bernardino kangaroo rat an endangered species recently, conservationists rejoiced. The state designation seemed to promise stronger protections for the tiny, ...

Scientists have recreated the genome of the Christmas Island rat, which went extinct more than 100 years ago. But about 5% of the rat's genetic makeup could not be recreated, which means if the animal ...