No one wants to find rats or mice around their house. Once you find yourself dealing with rodents setting up residents in or around your home, you'll find it incredibly hard to get rid of them.

While enormous rats might be many people's nightmare, these huge rodents could be a key weapon in the battle against the trading of illegal wildlife goods. African giant pouched rats can be ...

(It has been described as an unofficial rat zoo.) We were here to meet Kathy Corradi, New York’s first-ever rat czar—or in administrative parlance, the citywide director of rodent mitigation ...

Rats, infamous for their unwelcome presence in gardens where they breed and scavenge, can easily make the leap from your garden to the inside of your house. These vermin are masters of concealment ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Although cute, wild rats are disease vectors. They spread ...

The Rat Pack was a constantly evolving group of Hollywood A-listers who not only starred together in several of the hit ...

Paul Island, Alaska, when it arrived in June. A resident had reported a rat sighting. “I got PTSD immediately,” Lauren Divine, the director of the island’s Ecosystem Conservation Office ...

“I’m excited to welcome my fellow generals in the ‘war on rats’ to our great city for the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit,” said New York City mayor Eric Adams, who has declared ...

Rodents have made their way onto two recent flights. Here's what to do—and not do. Have you ever seen a rat, or any type of rodent, on an airplane? This was my go-to conversation opener at each ...

It's always a worry if you've spotted a mouse indoors or a rat in the backyard. And learning how to get rid of mice or how to get rid of rats can be a challenging and often expensive task at the ...

Researchers trained 11 rats to sniff out elephant tusk and rhino horn, even when smugglers used common tricks such as using coffee grinds and washing powder to conceal their scents. Scientists say ...

Ana Cojuhari lay wide awake in bed each night, unable to sleep because of the horrifying screeches of the rats scurrying behind the walls of her Ottawa home. "It was just insane. It's just ...