Rogers Park residents took to social media to report instances of rat poison spotted at numerous locations within the ...

Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly ...

Pangolin scales, elephant tusks, rhino horn, and a rare wood all are preferred objects in the illegal wildlife trade. African giant pouched rats, with their keen sense of smell, however, could soon ...

"There's 5,000 real rats. So basically, if there's rats in the foreground, they're real, and they thin out and become CG rats ...

Forget fictional Rodents of Unusual Size – for wildlife traffickers, there are real life giant rats to be feared, after researchers successfully trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the ...

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat is cute, it’s harder to deny the impressive power of its nose. Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

Researchers trained 11 rats to sniff out elephant tusk and rhino horn, even when smugglers used common tricks such as using coffee grinds and washing powder to conceal their scents. Scientists say ...