A team of researchers with the University of Oslo has found evidence that suggests human fleas and lice, not rodents, were behind the spread of the plague that killed millions of people over the course of several centuries. ...
Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es (Rodents of Unusual Size), only to be beset by enormous rats? That's kind of what happened here.
Plants & Animals
Sep 27, 2017
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When it comes to rats, even scientists can get caught up in the blame game.
Evolution
Nov 14, 2017
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The latest species to join Dutch police is hard at work behind the blacked-out windows of a building in Rotterdam: rats learning to sniff out crime and a new forensic future.
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2013
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The earliest introduction of domestic chickens and black rats from Asia to the east coast of Africa came via maritime routes between the 7th and 8th centuries AD. In a paper published August 17, 2017 in the journal PLOS ONE, ...
Archaeology
Aug 17, 2017
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Black rat numbers on Penguin Island have declined significantly while penguins and other native animals are flourishing, thanks to a baiting system that was introduced on the island one year ago.
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2014
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It's an invasion of rats! Some remote islands are crawling with these rodents, and even the coral reefs are suffering from it.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2018
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(AP)—The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Chilean authorities say—and that means the rats must die, hundreds of millions of them.
Ecology
Nov 14, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sydney's native bush rats were unintended victims of a campaign to exterminate foreign black rats during a plague epidemic in 1900, according to new research by scientists who plan to reintroduce the native ...
Ecology
Nov 3, 2009
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Ecuador used drones to scatter rat poison on one of the Galapagos Islands in a bid to protect species including the world's only nocturnal seagull from the pests, the archipelago's national parks authority, PNG, said Thursday.
Ecology
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