ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — More than 200 years ago, rats were shipwrecked on an Aleutian island. The stocky, muscular Norway rat jumped the Japanese sailing ship and soon had full run of the rugged, ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The remote Aleutian site known for two centuries as Rat Island, notorious as the first spot in Alaska despoiled by rats, has a new, more dignified name to celebrate its hard-won ...

In the late 1700s, a Japanese ship ran aground on a desolate scrap of land in the Aleutian Island chain on what is now Alaska. Among the cargo spilled out of the ship that day were common ship ...

The last rat on Tromelin Island—a small teardrop of scrubby sand in the western Indian Ocean near Madagascar—was killed in 2005. Rats had lived on the island for hundreds of rat generations. The ...

The Galapagos Island of Seymour Norte, off the coast of Ecuador, has a vicious invasive rat problem. Despite efforts to curb the spread of the rats in 2007, conservationists found the tiny island was ...