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Researchers discovered that ships were important superhighways for aggressive rats to spread in North America, which can be helpful in potentially managing their spread and population. Read here

Rat bones collected from centuries-old shipwrecks tell a story of ecological competition and swift victory.

Dont mind me, just taking a long look at my lawn...

The story of the Muskrat is a salutary tale of our need to be vigilant regarding the introduction of non-native species.

A Parasitic Worm with Brain-Invasion Potential Unearthed in Atlanta. Get the Latest Details and Insights on this Unprecedented Discovery.

Brown rats found and analyzed near Atlanta now carry rat lungworm, researchers report.

Top 10 Fascinating Facts About Rats Few creatures in the world inspire more dread than the rat. Long a symbol of death and pestilence, they haunt our nightmares and scuttle in our walls, scaly tails dragging behind them. Rats cause billions of dollars in damage every year, spoiling food supplies, chewing through electrical wires, biting babies in their cribs – and yet their benefits to mankind have been simultaneously overwhelming. Read below for further information on some of our creepiest n...

The Atlantic A Revolution Is Sweeping the Science of Ancient Diseases The study of DNA from millennia-old bacteria and viruses is revealing new secrets about the plague and other epidemics. Getty / The Atlantic When Johannes Krause was a graduate student working on the Neanderthal genome in the 2000s, so much of the DNA recovered from the ancient bone fragments came from everything else: the skin cells of excavators and scientists, the bacteria on those humans, the microbes in the soil. To get ...

Zosterops meeki. And it looks like we’ve done so just in time, because two of the species – the Tagula Butcherbird and Tagula White-eye – are Near Threatened. Logging, agricultural expansion and commercial gold prospecting are destroying their rainforest habitats. These vital new discoveries came in large part from research lead by one scientist, William Goulding, whose ambition is to improve knowledge of all the endemic bird species of Tagula and the wider Louisiade Archipelago. His rese...