When the Key Largo cotton mouse and woodrat were placed on the Endangered Species List in 1984, federal scientists named several factors that were imperiling the rodents’ existence. Most serious was ...

Burmese pythons, a prolific and invasive species of snake, could help cause the extinction of an endangered rodent native to Florida. Ever since the landfall of Hurricane Irma in 2017, which likely ...

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds stick nests that can stand six feet tall, some of them reused across ...

I arrive at the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the pulverizing rain, after buying the last umbrella at the first gas station in Key Largo. It’s not a great day to comb the Florida woods ...

(Phys.org) —Captive breeding of the endangered Key Largo woodrat may not be the best solution to preserve the ecologically important rodent, an animal driven to near extinction by development, a new ...

The Key Largo woodrat, nearly driven to extinction by loss of habitat and feral cats, faces a new threat: breeding pythons, feral cats and tegu lizards. When the Key Largo cotton mouse and woodrat ...