Sure, he looks cute, but he’s actually a rat. And he may not even be a he, either. The Prospect Park Zoo had a bit of a coming out party this week for its newest resident, an endangered Malagasy rat, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The native kangaroo rat was thriving until the 1950s, when a two-tiered threat of ...

The project leader Viktor Tóth said at the time he wasn't happy with how they'd implemented the shooting response, and four ...