We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

Across Britain, some gardens stay untouched by rats while neighbours battle nightly raids. The difference often comes down to ...

Rats are more likely to enter gardens in mid-summer as they search for food and shelter, but there is a natural method that ...

The war on rats will never be fully won, Lauren Bell, the Junior Minister of Health, admitted during questions in the Senate ...

Rats have been observed showing empathy-driven behavior, such as freeing trapped companions from restrainers. This behavior also extends toward strangers, but with a catch—rats require prior, positive ...

"Rats are clever, quick thinkers; successful, but content with living a quiet and peaceful life." 2020 is the year of the rat, and a lot of attention is being directed toward these clever, sentient, ...

Gardeners must remain alert as rats are more prone to venture into gardens during cold weather, but there's a straightforward method to discourage them before they establish themselves as a nuisance.

Rats and mice are mutating and becoming resistant to poison, researchers warn - Increases the threat of deadly diseases to humans, such as flu-like bacterial disease leptospirosis and viral hantavirus ...

Tourists won’t be the only thing hogging the Big Apple sidewalks this summer. When people think of New York City rats, they ...

In the world of animal research, there has long been a clear hierarchy of intelligence. Monkeys are at the top, naturally. Then come rats, the workhorses of the psychology lab. And down at the bottom ...