Composting is a great way to recycle kitchen waste and improve your garden soil, but there are certain foods that can attract ...

“The rat had quite a lot of winter fat and got stuck on its hips — nothing was going forward and nothing back,” one animal rescue worker told local German media.

Between the species, brown rat bones had a higher delta-N-15 ratio than black rats across sites, suggesting the brown rats were eating more animal protein than their smaller competitors.

Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race.New research suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than previously thought and out-competed rodent ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far ...

Many local health departments strained by covid-19 lack the resources to tackle the spread of rats.

Rats as pets face a lot of stigmas as they have been branded as vermin, but they make loving pets that can be trained just like any dog.

The rodents hate it, too, according to rat czar Kathleen Corradi. Brown rats are less active in extreme cold and there is less food for them on the streets, Corradi said.

The Japanese city is looking for experts to help verify the authenticity of a drawing of a rat that looks like one of Banksy’s most famous artworks.

Rat birth control was an option discussed this week by a Baltimore City Council committee gathered to focus on rate abatement efforts.

BURIEN, Wash. -- Brown water, rats, and something that appears to be mold are just some of the issues that have been plaguing Highline High School in Burien. Highline is more than 90 years old and ...