Flamingoes have returned to a Galapagos island 20 years after an invasion of rats forced them out. The return is the fruit of 12 years of painstaking efforts to eradicate…
The Black Death was only possible because human civilisation had become advanced enough to allow rats to survive and flourish, according to the first study of the ancient genes of…
A new pioneering technique developed at the University of Michigan can blast tumours in a non-invasive way, with experts saying that in 80 percent of cases, they do not grow…
These shocking images show a baby whose nose was eaten by rats after it was abandoned on the streets of Aleppo in war-torn Syria. The baby, who has reportedly been…
This is the moment a Chinese toddler shows his mother two rats he caught in the garden before running away with both of them in his hands because he does…
Only 211 rare Pink Land Iguanas only found on a remote Galapagos volcanic island are left alive according to scientists monitoring the population, and even more worryingly, no juveniles were…
A former university employee is facing up to two years imprisonment after he starved over 100 lab mice to death in a research facility in Austria. More than 100 laboratory…
This is the moment a huge rat tackles a rival rodent to the ground before the pair brawls in the middle of a Mexican market. The bizarre incident was filmed…
A zoo has offered a rare glimpse into the underground life these alien-looking naked mole rats as a 'queen' rat breastfeeds her young in a colony kept in a zoo.…
A Saudi Arabian actress has sparked outrage by suggesting that prisoners should be used as lab rats for medical experiments amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Maram Abdulaziz said on Twitter for…