An elusive nocturnal beast of a rodent that lives high in the mountains has been filmed and photographed for the first time, in a remarkable discovery for animal science and something akin to winning ...

It took six months of searching on the island of New Guinea, but the gigantic Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap) has ...

It has been four years since the original publication of the draft sequence of the rat genome ... of the unusually large size of the Brown Norway Y chromosome. This will be addressed by including ...

In Norway, there are more than 2,300 species of butterflies and ... Fride Høistad Schei has developed a new digital light trap. The researchers were inspired by a Danish study, but the new trap is ...

First off, pet rats are the domesticated form of Rattus norvegicus, the Norway rat or brown rat. There are other species of rats kept as pets. They usually have differing coat colors. Our ...

Bill Rough, a pest control specialist with Surrey-based Advance Pest Control, said he recently responded to a rat infestation in a downtown Vancouver duplex. He set 30 to 40 traps. But within ...

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The two rat species native to New York (Norway and black) carry things that sound like they’d appear in scenes from The Walking Dead: hemorrhagic fever, rat-bite fever, salmonellosis ...

Self setting traps that only need to be checked every few months are another tool in the fight against introduced predators such as rats and stoats Audio ...