A hotly contested solar project that straddles the Nye-Clark County line received its final federal permits on Thursday to proceed with construction. The Bureau of Land Management’s record of ...

Woodrats are one of the only animals that can tolerate large quantities of creosote, a shrub with leaves coated in a chemical cocktail of poisonous resin. The critter's constitution has astounded ...

Adrian HeddenEl Rito Media An oil and gas company operating in southeast New Mexico’s Permian Basin oilfields agreed to take steps at three facilities in… ...

Q: How can you distinguish protected woodrats from Norway and roof rats? A: Like commensal rats, pack rats (woodrats) consume various food items, including fruits and nuts. An easy way to distinguish ...

Woodrats are ideal for studying the roots of rapid evolution due to their unique natural history. About 26,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum, Earth was significantly colder and drier.

The study, published on Jan. 10, 2025, in the journal Science and led by University of Utah (U) biologists, is the first to pinpoint the specific genes and enzymes that allow woodrats to eat the ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --The new year is ushering in a major winter storm across a wide swath of the United States, blasting large regions of the country with heavy snow and dangerous ice. More than 60 ...

UPDATE MONDAY MORNING: Allegheny County officials gave an update on the winter conditions Monday morning.Stephen Shanley, director of the Allegheny County Department of Public Works, said the 28 ...

Pack rats go by many different street names, sometimes called trade rats (more on that one later), woodrats, and bushy-tailed woodrats. The most common of the 6 species of woodrats found in ...

MIDDLETOWN, PA (KDKA) – Someone is starting off 2025 a little richer after hitting the jackpot on a lottery ticket sold in Allegheny County. The Pennsylvania Lottery announced the winning CASH 5 ...

But a proposed water reservoir and power transmission project is poised to drown nearly 1,500 acres of habitat that imperiled mussels, bats, birds and reptiles depend on. It’s frankly astonishing that ...