If you love traveling to remote locations, this small Alaskan island town located on a volcanic rock and surrounded by ...

New research on the feeding habits of the desert rat-kangaroo could help locate the possibly extinct species, with ...

By Simon J. Levien The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a suggestion to help curb the growing population of an invasive species that bears a resemblance to a very large rat: Eat them.

To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

The plea is part of the agency’s annual National Invasive Species Week (February 24-28 ... semiaquatic mammal that looks like a cross between a giant rat and a beaver.

However, as with all invasive species, if rat populations do not have “biological checks and balances” in the ecosystem, they are likely to “run amok” and be a problem for others ...

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Mar. 13, 2025 — Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research ... New Species of Killifish from Kenya Already Critically ...

A predator-control program in Western Alaska, ruled unconstitutional this month, is needed to boost the ailing Mulchatna caribou herd, state game managers say. Saturday’s incident, in which a ...

NOME, Alaska — Along the remote western edge of Alaska, just before it hits the narrow strait dividing America from the Russian Far East, Rolland Trowbridge is holding a contraption he designed ...

Nature is cruel, majestic, and fascinating. Sometimes, it’s also a bit silly. The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has released 17 previously unseen submissions to its 2024 competition ...