Rats are not always viewed in a positive light. Scientists are becoming increasingly aware, however, that the Australian ...

The islands of the West Indies were once home to a group of rats of nightmarish proportions. These super-rats, some as large ...

It's been a good few months in the press for the rakali (known as moytj in Noongar)—Australia's native water rat. These long-whiskered rodents finally received the recognition they deserve, with the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Between 2010 and 2015, Tyrone Lavery and his colleagues searched tree hollows and set up camera traps ...

A giant rat species, long considered lost to science, has been rediscovered alive in the remote Papua mountains after a 30-year absence. This remarkable find underscores the potential for hidden ...

One of the new species of tweezer-beaked hopping rat, Rhynchomys labo. Credit: (c) Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Just about everybody loves peanut butter. We put it on sandwiches and in candy, we ...

Both mice and rats are rodents, and some are even members of the same scientific family. When they are small, or when you only see traces of their presence, they can be difficult to distinguish.

In New York, they forced the city to hire a "rat czar." In Chicago, they have prompted the deployment of feral cats. In New Orleans, they are literally eating police evidence. Now researchers are ...

Scientists have established that a special species of rats can detect Tuberculosis Bacilli (TB) bacteria just by smelling sputum of a patient. In the latest report published by The American Journal of ...