"Although cars made for rats are far from anything they would encounter in the wild, we believed that driving represented an ...

As a neuroscientist who advocates for housing and testing laboratory animals in natural habitats, I’ve found it amusing to ...

As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig the burrows that the whole clan inhabits, using their prominent teeth and snouts.

Campaigners are calling for stricter controls on rodenticides after finding that birds of prey in England are increasingly ...

The US does not include within its animal welfare laws and regulations the rats, mice and birds who are subjected to research and testing. The federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) was amended in 1970 to ...

A fairly large rescue operation ensued - leading some to question why all the effort was spent on saving a sewer rat. "Even animals that are hated by many deserve respect," Mr Sehr responded.

Eight giant African pouched rats were able to detect four wildlife samples from 146 non-target items during this four-year study.

We purchased a batch of 40 adult Long-Evans male rats (300–350 g body weight) from a laboratory animal supplier for studies on sexual behavior. We kept the males in pairs in shoebox cages in a ...

Sarah Jordan, 31, let the rats breed in an uncontrolled way at her home in Leyland, Lancashire, the RSPCA said. Animal rescue officers found 38 rodents running loose and 74 others in cages ...

Have you ever thought that the cute pet rat dancing in the TikTok that everyone shared seemed uncannily rhythmic? Or wondered whether seals naturally move to music? New research suggests that ...

[rats squeaking] Narrator: Having a swarm of rats crawl up your legs may seem like your own personal nightmare. But for Hollywood animal trainer Mark Harden, it's just another day of work.

With these pieces in place, Liu and his colleagues tested several transparent skull implants on rats ... a phantom (a scientific device designed to test medical imaging equipment) and animal ...