Strychnine had long been the preferred pesticide for gopher control in Alberta — until the federal government began to phase ...

The Government of Alberta is calling for strychnine to be unbanned for use on Richardson's ground squirrels, commonly referred to as gophers. The province says reversing the ban on the ...

Scientists at Deakin University previously found rat poison was to blame for killing powerful owls. In 2022, in a study looking at the prey of powerful owls, the team dissected 160 possums.

A Princeton grad and his girlfriend tried to kill two women he met on dating apps by using rat poison, cyanide and a homemade concoction derived from ground-up rosary peas, authorities said. Paul ...

Officials said the gas doesn’t pose a risk to humans or non-rats, and the noisy equipment used to deploy the carbon monoxide ...

It begins and ends with a poisoning. The first is with strychnine, an agonising death that leads to one of Auckland’s most sensational murdertrials and sends a convicted killer to the gallows.

In sequencing the samples of this species, the research team found the genetic mutation, Tyr25Phe, which has previously been tied to coagulation in rodents, in 53.7% of the black rats tested ...

They found Tyr25Phe in 53.7 per cent of the rats – including 80.4 per cent of black rats tested in Perth, 45.5 per cent tested in Sydney, and 39 per cent in Melbourne.

An apparent plot by left-wing activists to attack and harass Israeli attendees at an upcoming music festival in Portugal was exposed by a Jewish artist who was mistakenly added to their WhatsApp group ...