The African crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is hardly the continent's most fearsome-looking creature—the rabbit-sized rodent resembles a gray puffball crossed with a skunk—yet its fur is packed with a poison so lethal ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2020
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has found that coating titanium bone implants with a thin film of Lactobacillus casei before implantation promoted healing and reduced infection risk in ...
A trio of researchers with Washington University St. Louis, the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish Commission and San Francisco State University has found that invading mole rats at times kidnap pups from the colonies they ...
A team of researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Charles University and the Max Planck Research Group Neurobiology of Magnetoreception, has found that Ansell's mole-rats use their eyes to orient their nesting ...
Good news for Western Australian wildlife with a recent study suggesting that mice numbers could be controlled with much smaller doses of poison.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2020
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The rat in a maze might be one of the most classic paradigms in the study of behavior, but an international team of scientists has put a twist on this experimental motif to push the leading edge of technology and research ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2020
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Not all rats like to be tickled but by listening to their vocalizations it is possible to understand in real-time their individual emotional response, according to new research by the University of Bristol. The study, published ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2020
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Gut microbes affect human health, but there is still much to learn, in part because they're not easy to collect. But researchers now report in ACS Nano that they have developed an ingestible capsule that in rat studies captured ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 9, 2020
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Australian rodents skulls all correspond to one simple, size-dependent shape that is more than ten million years old but it turns out this lack of change is the secret behind their survivor reputation.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2020
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September 7 marks National Threatened Species Day, and this year Museums Victoria is highlighting an adorable native rodent, the Tooarrana, or Broad-toothed Rat, endangered in Victoria and fighting against threats from climate ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2020
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