Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in the news after an ...

They were brought from South America for their fur decades ago and are now found in the delta, where they can consume up to one-fourth of their body weight in vegetation every day, damaging the ...

The Amami spiny rat, or Amami togenezumi in Japanese, which belongs to the Muridae family of the Rodentia order, is about 9 cm to 16 cm long and has spiny hair in its brown and black fur.

Invasive nutria are wreaking havoc on delicate wetland ecosystems, and wildlife officials think eating them might be part of the solution.

an invasive swamp rat that threatens to damage levees and eat through Central Valley wetlands. Aug. 7, 2019 Originally bred for a fur trade that collapsed in the 1940s, feral nutria populations ...

The hispid cotton rat is about 8 to 14.6 inches long, with a tail that ranges from 3 to 6.6 inches long, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Its fur is a mixture of brown ...

A discovery about the dark fur of early mammals confirms long-held theories about their evolutionary and ecological behavior.

Cooking up the swamp rats could be a solution to the growing ... the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Alligator & Fur Division. Per TPWD, nutria are considered nuisance fur-bearing ...

This is why, especially if you have furry family members, rat bait is risky. The purpose of natural rat repellents is to ...

The early mammals that lived alongside the dinosaurs upwards of 150 million years ago (mya) were likely covered in dark and dusky greyish-brown fur, according to a quantitative reconstruction of ...

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 ... of the fur trade, according ...