A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th ...

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

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

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

In the past, African giant pouched rats have learned to detect explosives and the tuberculosis-causing pathogen. Now, a team ...

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

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 ...

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

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

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

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 ...