Most of us are familiar with the vest-clad beagle that hunts for illegal fruits and plants in the travelers' luggage at ...

Officials working to combat wildlife smugglers may have a new, furry tool to help sniff out illegally trafficked items: giant ...

One pest control company responded to their first call about the 'roof rat' two years ago. Now they're receiving calls about ...

Pangolin scales, elephant tusks, rhino horn, and a rare wood all are preferred objects in the illegal wildlife trade. African giant pouched rats, with their keen sense of smell, however, could soon ...

One of the UK’s largest breed of spiders have had the biggest mating season on record as efforts to re-establish the species ...

Species around the world are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, which peddles in wares such as pangolin scales, ...

posters and other materials asking Albertans to report rats and signs of rats. The Alberta Invasive Species Council is ...

African giant pouched rats can detect landmines and diseases. Now some have been trained to ferret out elephant ivory, pangolin scales and more.

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

"The rats also continued to detect the wildlife targets after not encountering that species for a long period," co-author Kate Webb, an assistant professor at Duke University, said in the statement.

Comparison of the hairless animals’ genomes with those of several other mammals shows low activity of certain sequences.

Fen Raft spiders can spin a web as large as 25cm and can grow to the size of a rat - but are completely ... are the largest of the UK’s 660 native species of spider. The species only lives ...