Bouncing around on their giant hind feet, seed-eating San Bernardino kangaroo rats are highly adapted to southwestern deserts and the natural flood cycles found there. Though these kangaroo rats ...

Fortunately, the owls have the decency not to eat their hosts; their usual diet includes insects, lizards, and smaller ...

Police in Canada learned this week that one of the easiest ways to catch a kangaroo is to grab it by the tail. That is what Durham Regional Police officers did after spotting a female kangaroo ...

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From laughing rats to the unusual pooping habits of ... If you were to lift the kangaroo’s tail off the ground, it would be unable to walk or jump. That is not all, though – without the ...

Techniques for blood collection from the rat include puncture of the heart, retro-orbital plexus, jugular vein, saphenous vein, tail blood vessels, carotid artery, abdominal aorta, and vena cava.

Roger, a kangaroo who won global fame for his enormous size and impressive physique, has died at the age of 12. The roo was rescued as a joey after his mother was killed in a car accident ...

A remote Alaskan island mobilizes a “strike team” to hunt a single elusive rat that may have come aboard a visiting ship.

Despite Mayor Eric Adams last year employing a “rat czar” in a bid to help ease the infestation, residents of the five boroughs were frequently calling Terminix for their services. Los Angeles ...

QUANG NINH PROVENCE, VIETNAM Rats are considered a nutritious delicacy and are trapped in nets in farmers’ fields. Photograph by Ian Teh “It is the tail,” says Laurinda Williams, who breeds ...

During mating season, the glands near the base of the muskrat's tail give ... related to the kangaroo and the koala, the opossum is only native to the U.S. They resemble large rats with long ...

Also known as the brown rat, sewer rat or wharf rat, they have a robust body, blunt nose, small ears and a tail shorter than their body length. These rats are excellent burrowers and often create ...