DEAR JOAN: I was cleaning up the yard and was trying to pull some previously clipped branches from an overgrown antique rose bush that had gotten about 20 feet off the ground, climbing on another bush ...

Refuge manager Jeremy Dixon, left, tags a tree where he and a crew of volunteers have just built a nest for endangered Key Largo wood rats. There are a lot of endangered species in South Florida — and ...

Claim to fame: Many people have used the term “pack rat,” but most don’t know what a pack rat is or where it lives. “Pack rat” is the most common name used for this long-tailed rodent which is found ...

The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum is located at Brigham Young University. The museum was opened to the public in 1978, is accredited by the American Association of Museums and maintains membership ...

Scientists worked out what lived in part of the Western United States tens of thousands of years ago by studying DNA found in pack rat middens. By Marion Renault No one likes a rodent’s nest, and for ...