APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

The African dormouse, also known as a micro squirrel, is a tiny rodent that looks a lot like a very small squirrel with some ...

Last year, African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of their extreme sense of smell. Carolina, an African giant ...

One such initiative is of APOPO, a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Tanzania and working in 11 countries, that trains African giant pouched rats (nicknamed HeroRATS), to detect TB in ...

The Tulsa Zoo has a colony of nearly 30 naked mole rats. Despite their name, these mammals are more closely related to ...

The fat-tailed jird, a small North African rodent with a distinctive club-shaped tail, is a convenient research subject and an emerging model for Old World leishmaniasis. The authors present the ...

Certain species of amphibians and reptiles easily regrow limbs after losing them in times of danger, but tissue regeneration is much more limited in mammals. Now, researchers describe a species of ...

From the top of Shifting Sands dune in the Serengeti Plain of Africa a million mammals are in motion. Wildebeests. Zebras. Gazelles. The plain is black with them. It is wildebeest calving season ...

Homo sapiens is the only living representative of the tribe Hominini, but of course this was not always the case; our ancestors overlapped in time and space with other species throughout the Plio ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...