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

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container and quickly found that rats could learn to drive forward by ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

Passengers were flying high on a major airline when they discovered a surprise traveler aboard their flight: A rat.

Olsen urged residents to report any rat sightings to 311, which includes a call center and online citizen support center. “We know there are rats out there. But if people don’t call into 311 ...

If you are looking at tracking through the Serengeti (a national park in Tanzania), you’re not going to use a rat for that,” she says. However, being “very small and agile,” rats have the ...