The invasive rats can also contain parasites that can contaminate drinking water supplies and swimming areas. Texas wildlife officials have warned to avoid feeding ducks as it can attract ...

While they’ve been spotted around neighborhoods in Texas, lately nutria, also known as “river rats,” are more invasive as ...

A team working on the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean found that invasive rats on the islands are a "big problem" for coral reefs. Rats decimate seabird populations, in turn decimating the ...

One of the few places in Hawaii that rats never reached, Huelo Islet off Molokai offers a glimpse into the past. — FOREST and KIM STARR photo Palm trees and Hawaii go together like fish and poi ...

Endangered Polynesian storm petrels have returned to Kamaka Island in French Polynesia for the first time in more than 100 years, after conservationists used drones to remove the invasive rats ...