In 2002, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had designated 33,295 acres as critical habitat for the rat, but by 2018 only 16,000 acres were considered functional, including a portion of Lytle ...

Center for Biological Diversity: RIALTO, Calif.— Conservation groups have reached an agreement with the developer of the Lytle Creek Ranch development project in Southern California to permanently ...

Long-tailed weasels are found in every state in the Lower 48 but are rarely observed. On the Carrizo Plain, they use dens ...

The current efforts to preserve the species’ habitat started in 2016, when the Center for Biological Diversity and the Endangered Habitats League filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of ...

"It's fairly rare for something so small to be a keystone species. It's easier to track, say, bison." Farming has taken 90 percent of the kangaroo rat habitat since the middle of the last century.

A study of rat body sizes shifting over time gives a glimpse into the habitat of the mysterious hominin Homo floresiensis -- nicknamed the 'Hobbit' due to its diminutive stature.

Incredible footage has captured the moment a 1kg native Australian predator attacked a 200g invasive black rat. The aggressor ...

A study of rat body sizes shifting over time gives a glimpse into the habitat of the mysterious hominin Homo floresiensis -- nicknamed the "Hobbit" due to its diminutive stature.

The rat population has not only grown exponentially; it has also spread. In 1974, another rat survey of New York found that only about 11 percent of the city was rat-afflicted.

The San Bernardino kangaroo rat is found in flood-prone areas only in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The seed-eating animal got its moniker from hopping around on large hind legs much like a ...

A study of rat body sizes shifting over time gives a glimpse into the habitat of the mysterious hominin Homo floresiensis -- nicknamed the 'Hobbit' due to its diminutive stature.