New York City is known for its rat problem. Despite gains in extermination technology, climate change might make the future a more ratty place. Warmer temperatures mean more rat sexy time and could ...

This year was supposed to be a good year for selling bamboo rats to eat. Prices had been rising steadily as had their popularity as a delicacy when grilled. Then the coronavirus hit. "People nowadays ...

A virus rarely seen in the United States recently infected eight people in Wisconsin and Illinois who were working in facilities where pet rats are bred, according to the Centers for Disease Control ...

Rats are taking to empty streets in search of food as they usually do, but something is stopping them in their tracks: there isn’t any food to munch on. Stay-at-home orders and business closures ...

The bubonic plague outbreak in 1900, linked to rat-borne fleas, prompted sweeping sanitation reforms across Sydney, including the demolition of slum housing in areas such as The Rocks and Millers ...