15th century imperial silk paintings hint that explorer’s voyages may have carried some unintended passengers, researchers ...

While domestic rats can typically live for two to four years, some of APOPO’s trained rats can live up to a decade. Some of the earlier generations of the African giant pouched rats at APOPO had ...

“The imperial paintings, The Silk Scroll of Three Rats, depicted domesticated brown rats with coat colour variation in China during AD1425–1435,” the team wrote in a paper published in the ...