While the name of John Bumpass Calhoun might not be familiar to everyone these days, he and his life’s work — studying rats ...

Adams himself posed that question at the city’s inaugural National Urban Rat Summit last month. “Let’s figure out how we unify against public enemy number one: Mickey and his crew.” ...

Harry Houdini was a world-famous escape artist from the late 1890s until his death in 1926. Houdini the rat was a great ...

The African giant pouched rat is the world’s largest rat ... When the scientists tested the rodents five and eight months later, they still remembered the smells they had been taught. “Wildlife is ...

An Indiana mom who left her six-month-old son to die in a rat-infested home has now been sentenced. Angel Schonabaum has ...

An Indiana mum, who confessed to neglect after her six-month-old son was horrifically attacked by a rat, leaving him with disfiguring injuries, has been given a probation sentence. This comes just ...

Angel Schonabaum pleaded guilty on Thursday, Oct. 24 to multiple charges in connection with the 2023 rat attack Vanderburgh County Jail Content warning: This story contains graphic details.

Freaked-out fliers spotted what appeared to be a rat running above an overhead bin ... or a fire — a common concern in the air. Last month, a mouse ran amok on a Scandinavian Airlines flight ...

Commenters on social media are debating whether it was a rat or another type of rodent that hitched a ride on a flight from Dallas to Los Angeles last week Boarding1Now/Getty; Nicola Warburton ...

touting the fact that citywide rat sightings had gone down in 12 of the previous 13 months and promising that a "massive trash revolution strategy" — putting more trash in rat-proof containers ...

Footage has emerged of an enormous rat scaling the stairs inside a University ... behind the counter of a Central Auckland Subway last month, forcing the short-term closure of the eatery.