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

TB is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, but it remains the number-one cause of death globally from a single ...

A pest management expert has warned graziers against using the same herbicide too many times in a row to combat invasive ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has instructed residents of California to eat a certain rodent that has been called a "giant swamp rat" in efforts to protect the state's marshland.

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 ...

Tourists in Czechia’s capital regularly come face to face with nutria, large semiaquatic rodents native to South America that look like ... they are giant, disease-ridden rats.