Some Tri-Citians are reporting something they say they’ve never seen before in the Tri-Cities — rats. Reports of sightings have popped up in neighborhood social media groups, including in ...

An Indiana father whose infant child was found nearly eaten alive by rats and disfigured in a pool of blood will spend more than a decade behind bars after a judge slapped him with the maximum ...

When Kaylee Byers joined the Vancouver Rat Project a decade ago, she spent a lot of time explaining to others the threat of zoonotic diseases — starting with what “zoonotic” even means.

If the trap’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’. New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps ...

Rats in New York City will be given "the pill" to reduce their numbers, meaning that the Big Apple's rodents will have better access to free birth control than women in some states. Edible ...

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops. By Amanda Holpuch The last time a rat found its way to Alaska’s St. Paul ...

Rats can’t vomit. This may be a function of their anatomy—their stomachs are “not well structured for moving contents towards the esophagus” is how one study delicately put it—or it may ...

SINGAPORE – Singapore seems to be winning its ongoing fight against the rat population. There was a nearly 50 per cent drop in the average number of rat burrows detected in public areas in the ...

Malaga is currently wrestling with an epidemic of rats swarming its streets and sun-drenched plazas, causing concerns for both locals and tourists alike. Sightings of the rodents have increased ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem.

An animal charity who are looking after a domesticated rat found abandoned in a Keyham park fears a second pet may be desperately roaming parts of Plymouth. Periwinkle - nicknamed Perry - was ...

New research suggests that pigs may function as a transmission vehicle for a strain of the hepatitis E virus (HEV) common in rats that has recently been found to infect humans. New research ...