Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

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Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of dogs hunting rats that could upset some readers. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a ...

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Joining the city's "elite squad of anti-rat activists" was even funnier —and creepier — than I expected. Andrew Barrett is hardly a rat sympathizer. He's spent years waging war on the rodents ...

Third District Niagara County Legislator Christopher McKimmie has lived in Niagara Falls’ LaSalle neighborhood for more than a decade, but this year was the first time he had seen a rat in the area.

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A six-month-old baby was found covered in blood with bone exposed after being brutally attacked and bitten more than 50 times by rats. The infant, who was resting in a bassinet in his parents ...

Unpleasant outcomes, like the smell it can cause, are one thing - but attracting rats or causing the death of your tree is entirely another. "Pick up the fruit and dispose of it in a compost heap ...

In the early afternoon on Aug. 20, Globe photographer Pat Greenhouse was driving north on Interstate 93 in Boston when she saw a surprising sight before her: a rat scampering across the highway.

The Santa Ana sucker is able to rebuild populations quickly after massive floods, and San Bernardino kangaroo rats actually need regular flooding in order to survive. The rats, which get their ...