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There’s the “cellar rat” turned sommelier who worked at Tampa’s Bern’s for over three decades.

“I know where to take you,” said the rat, and he started scampering down the tunnel.

She writes: “We hadn’t made our record to garner fame and fortune. We made it for the art rats known and unknown, the marginalized, the shunned, the disowned.”

Many of the recorded extinctions occurred on isolated islands, including the Hawaiian Islands, where invasive species introduced by humans -- such as rats, pigs, and goats -- wiped out native wildlife.

To explore these effects, researchers induced apical periodontitis in 30 rats and divided them into three groups.