Caption A captive desert woodrat, also known as a packrat, stands on a rock near branches from a toxic creosote bush. A new University of Utah study shows how microbes in the gut play a key role ...

“What’s about 17 inches long, federally threatened and downright adorable? The Allegheny woodrat!” The U.S. Forest Service ...

My research area is science education. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how different pedagogical and assessment practices impact student learning. I am also very interested in studying different ...

Alex Badyaev (USA) documents a dexterous woodrat trying out its defences. Alex was delighted to discover an elevated woodrat nest, as it saved him from crawling through thickets of barbed cacti in the ...

Part of the problem is a mysterious drop in the wood rat population, as well as increased competition from the more aggressive and adaptable barred owl, which has muscled into the spotted owls ...

Scientists worked out what lived in part of the Western United States tens of thousands of years ago by studying DNA found in pack rat middens.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Maryland Zoo and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s ...

I have to admit I was impressed and intrigued. Shell mounds, sometimes called middens, often consist of more than a bunch of clams. At Kasori, there are lots of bladder moon snails (tsumetagai ...

Commenting on the findings, Dr Matthew Pope, from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, UK, said: "Zilhão and the team claim to have identified 'middens'. This is a shorthand for humanly created ...

It has a rich history, beginning with the Bunurong people of the Kulin nation and their middens can still be discovered on guided coastal walks. Close to the border of Mentone, there are ...

The desert night lizard uses its fallen branches for shelter; the threatened desert tortoise consumes Joshua tree flowers; and the blacktail jack rabbit and desert wood rat depend on the water ...