No, this foreign invader is a snail. But what a snail it is. The giant African land snail "can grow as big as a rat and gnaw through stucco and plaster," says Reuters' Barbara Liston. Since the ...

Glasgow City Council has been trialling the on-street hubs - which include rat traps - in three parts of the city and say the quality of recycling has improved. The pilot project was aimed at ...

Up to 1,200 new bin hubs — which will include rat traps — are to be rolled out across Glasgow after a contract worth almost £2.5m was approved. Glasgow City Council has been trialling the hubs, which ...

A man with a month of no bin collections says he's forced to take on rats - armed with rubber gloves and oil. David Richardson, 64, says he's been left living beside a rodent infestation caused by ...

(With some very stiff competition from the Dune popcorn bucket of course). Well, next month gives us our first Marvel Studios popcorn bucket of the year, when Captain America: Brave New World hits ...

They are also known as roof rats. The Humane Society says there's no true humane way to kill rodents, but there's ways that are more humane than others. Strong snap traps made of wood or metal and ...

Currently, there are only 11 known “supergiant” and nine “giant” Bathynomus species, with several awaiting formal description, according to the study. B. vaderi is only the second recorded ...

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Nature asked the world’s largest health-research funders what they are doing to study a life stage experienced by half of humanity. Here is what some of them told us.