Brown rats are seen on video for the first time ever hunting bats systematically, doing so by stalking the flying mammals ...

Thought to be extinct in the wild, the Spix Macaw currently exists in captivity with their numbers in the dismally low 60 to ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s a rat-grabbing-bat!

Yet, in the autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, the contest is far from obvious. Some 996,303 voters had registered to vote ...

Polling stations across Tanzania have opened for an election marked by concerns from human rights organizations and the ...

Seaweed has been farmed off Zanzibar for decades, but there is a new boom underway for global industries like cosmetics.

We unpack the shocking revelation that the rat-shaped hole in a Chicago sidewalk was made not by a rat but by a squirrel. Michael Granatosky, an evolutionary biomechanist and one of the researchers ...

Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one responsible for the famed “Chicago rat hole.” (“Pizza Rat” is a notable exception.) But the ...

Ah, rats! Researchers have debunked the origin of Chicago's so-called “rat hole," concluding some other critter was likely ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.