FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — If you don’t like rats, you might have more in common with invasive Burmese pythons than you think. A new study by the University of Florida shows that pythons in the ...

Burmese pythons are killing off mammals that would normally keep Florida's rat population in check. A new study found that parts of the Florida Everglades were becoming overrun with rats as a result.

A student at Bosque School in Albuquerque is being credited for discovering a species of rodent never found in Bernalillo County. Dylan Jenkins found the Hispid Cotton Rat on the school’s campus in ...

Animal communities are sometimes thought of as rather static, unchanging, natural entities, but we know from observations and research that natural systems are dynamic. Considerable changes have ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Students at Bosque School learn a lot about wildlife and the environment since the school actually backs up to the bosque. One student recently made a really important ...

Modern demographic models in conservation biology incorporate demographic and environmental stochasticity. Variability in vital rates, relationships among vital rates, and relationships between vital ...

Florida has a lot of rats. Palm rats, cotton rats, Gambian pouched rats, Key Largo wood rats, silver rice rats, Sanibel rice rats, Norway rats and common black rats — they all can be found in the ...