General Montgommery sent the veteran British 7th Armoured Division, the famed “Desert Rats”, through the gap in the German lines as he thought he would, encircle Caen from the south-west.

Gras’ program presented many kinds of animals from the Sonoran Desert, from pack rats to snakes, from bears to mountain lions to javelina.

The Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ...

The Labeda Desert Rats of St. George won the silver division of the Western Regionals of the North American Roller Hockey Championships in Corona, California, on March 16.

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta.

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert – and Flinders University researchers ...

An intriguing native Australian rat-kangaroo, thought to be probably extinct, may still be running around in the inhospitable remote Sturt Stony Desert -- and researchers have discovered new ...

Battle of Tobruk is fought in The Desert Rats as a followup, but not a sequel, to The Desert Fox, the 1951 Field Marshal Rommel feature. Picture is a rather impersonal account of warfare that ...

Hollywood star James Mason and his wife Pamela were also frequent visitors, solidifying their friendship during the making of the 1953 war movie, “The Desert Rats.” ...

The publisher of the Desert Rat Scrap Book had a successful and varied career before turning his attention to aphorism and humor.