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

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 ...

Hundreds of rats were found in an Ohio home that is now condemned. The ones that survived are being cared for by an Indiana ...

On the East Coast, especially in major cities, rats are seen as a nuisance. On the West Coast in Portland, they receive ...

Experts argue that the population increase in rodents is because of warmer climates, urbanization and recent legislation.

A cleric chastising Mohammad Shami for not fasting during Ramzan is less about religion and more about power theology and the ...

Pitt sports are set for a weekend filled with competition. Volleyball takes on two Sunshine-State foes, basketball hosts its annual Backyard Brawl and cross-country and swimming and diving travel to ...

When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ...

Hundreds of U.S. Forest Service employees in Wyoming opened their inbox Wednesday to find a consoling message from their chief that offered some clarity to the resignations, layoffs and turmoil that ...

When she was laid off, the worker was told her health care would continue for 31 days. But an apparent “screw up” at the federal agency led to her losing her coverage — a mistake she’s trying to ...