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

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"If you step onto an island with rats, there are next to no seabirds." By killing seabirds, this study revealed, rats disrupt a healthy ecosystem that depends on the seabird droppings, which ...

I deployed a handful of tactics to rid my apartment of mice, including safe and humane peppermint spray. Here's how it went.

So the extermination industry uses anticoagulants, or blood thinners, which don’t affect rats for hours and don’t kill them for several days. The rats die slowly from internal bleeding.

The Indiana Legislature, the home of freak legislation, will soon have before it for serious consideration a bill setting aside one day each year for the wholesale slaughter of rats. It has been ...

too weak from previous anticoagulant rodenticide exposure used to kill rats,” Smith-Blackmore said, noting those birds provide “great rat control services” already. The ISD has already ...

The popular tourist spot was back to normal, bustling with visitors. The rat-killing strategy JDA used was aimed at letting the rats perish in their burrows, and their bodies decomposing naturally ...

Angel Schonabaum pleaded guilty on Thursday, Oct. 24 to multiple charges in connection with the 2023 rat attack Vanderburgh County Jail Content warning: This story contains graphic details.

A WOMAN has died of Lassa fever, an Ebola-like disease also known as 'rat fever', prompting urgent contact tracing. The horrific virus can cause bleeding from the eyes, though 80 per cent of ...