THERE are rats the size of cats in this UK city and mountains of rubbish along the streets. Residents have complained that ...

African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

The tiny billboards market Band-Aids as sleep eye masks, Staples rubber bands as workout equipment and Kraft noodles as ...

Rats are, in many ways, better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 ...

Urban human populations are exploding around the world, and they're wasting a lot of food for rats to find. As cities expand around their edges, they have to add new infrastructure, which rats ...