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

A spaniel’s nose has long been used to catch smugglers and contraband, but scientists have now found an unusual replacement ...

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

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 ...

Wildlife trafficking. The illegal practice involves capturing, killing and selling of wildlife and byproducts including pelts, ivory, plants and furs and more. These illicit products are often traded ...

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

MERIDIAN, Idaho — Talks of an invasive species have been circling around the Treasure Valley community. Roof rats that were accidentally brought to the area are growing rather quickly in the ...

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

"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.

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 ...