How lost ecosystem on Rat Island was rescued

Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 16:30 in Earth & Climate

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 stowaways: rats.

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