This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Interspecific morphometric variation among 19 species of kangaroo rats (genus Dipodomys) was examined using discriminant-function analysis.

Bartonella species were isolated from the blood of 63 of 325 Rattus norvegicus and 11 of 92 Rattus rattus from 13 sites in the United States and Portugal. Infection in both Rattus species ranged from ...

Think the New York subway system is home to the biggest rats around? Think again. Scientists have discovered a new species of giant rat in the Papua New Guinea rainforest that measures 82 centimeters ...

A new genus and species has been discovered on a remote, mountainous island in Indonesia. This new discovery is the third new genus described by this group of scientists since 2012, and identifies a ...

A new mammal species known as the slender root rat has been discovered on an Indonesian island by an Australian scientist and his colleagues. The rat is about 30 centimetres in length including its ...

SULAWESI ISLAND, Indonesia, Oct. 6 (UPI) --For the third time in three years, an international team of biologists working on a remote island in Indonesia have discovered a new species. The latest find ...

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An international team of scientists has discovered a new species of wild rodent in a remote mountainous area of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The creature had eluded discovery for many years by mainly ...

Museum of Natural Science Curator of Mammals Jake Esselstyn at Louisiana State University and his international collaborators have discovered a new genus and species on a remote, mountainous island in ...