African giant pouched rats use their acute sense of smell to sniff out landmines and detect TB in sputum samples. Now, they are set to become search-and-rescue specialists too.

Rat populations have spiked in cities with warming temperatures resulting from climate change or urban heat islands, found a study released Friday in the journal Science Advances.

Just when you thought you understood nature, this cat completely rewrites the rulebook! Instead of pouncing on the rat like a ...

Rats are likely going to try to follow humans into the future. No American city is perhaps more aware of this dynamic than New York.

A rat named Ronin has set a new Guinness World Record by detecting 109 land mines in Cambodia over the last four years. Ronin is an African giant pouched rat who works with APOPO, a nonprofit that ...

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.

An East Memphis man says he wants his tax dollars better-spent after dealing with an ongoing rat problem in his neighborhood.

A proposed strategy at Toronto council this month would see the hiring of a ‘rat czar’ to oversee a rodent management plan.

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

New York City is preparing to roll out an unconventional strategy for tackling its rodent problem: rat birth control.

Experts say in some cases, rats have become immune to over-the-counter rat poisons, and they can be dangerous to other animals, so call a professional or 311.