Welcome to Gough Island, one of the most remote rocks on the planet. The steep, volcanic island mountain sits about 3,000 kilometres from South Africa and 3,000km from South America and receives ...

Killer mouse threatening species with extinction on World Heritage island. LONDON, May 20, 2008 — -- On a South Atlantic island, home to the largest seabird colony in the world, a predator ...

The average mouse on Gough weighs about 1.2 ounces, with some giants reaching a hefty 1.8 ounces. That trumps the body mass of your ordinary house mouse, which weighs a mere 0.7 ounces or so.

Gough Island, a place of rugged ... have evolved rapidly since they arrived more than 100 years ago. They grow twice as fast and twice as big as their house-mouse ancestors, with an average weight ...

For the first time on record, 'super-sized' house mice have eaten alive an adult Tristan albatross on the South Atlantic's remote Gough Island, the RSPB have reported. The predators threaten the ...

A Gough mouse crouches over the remains of a seabird chick Credit: Photo: EPA . The mice of Gough Island have grown to two or even three times the size of an ordinary house mouse.

Mouse spotted after eradication bid to protect threatened birds on Gough Island Conservationists say the efforts to eradicate the non-native mice which eat eggs and chicks are needed to protect ...

Above photo: House mouse, Mus musculus, from Purdue Extension publication AS-692-W The most common rodent pest in structures is the house mouse, Mus musculus.House mice exist in all 50 states of the U ...