Rats are everywhere these days—and not just underfoot. They're also scurrying through a slew of news stories that will make you cringe. The post 5 Truly Frightening Facts About Rats appeared ...

Here are five facts about rats that are equal parts gross and true. 1. Rats can have thousands of children. There have been reports of a female and male rat mating 100 times in one night, ...

The June 14 Style article "No Dirty Rats Here" states that "the Gambian rat isn't a rat at all. It is a marsupial." Where on earth did that piece of biological misinformation come from? The ...

In Harvard professor Hans Zinsser’s classic 1935 “Rats, Lice and History,” humans don’t come off particularly well, either. “Man and the rat are utterly destructive,” Zinsser wrote.

The history most people don't know about rats Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, companions. Animals ...

Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at least partially mediated by a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex, according to a ...

Rat fact: Rats have poor vision. To compensate for this, a red- or pink-eyed rat will often weave its head side to side to see better. They also don't see in color. Rat fact: Rats normally prefer ...

Rats exchange information about danger in a reciprocal fashion, and this information transfer is at least partially mediated by a brain region called the anterior cingulate cortex, according to a ...

The rats are everywhere, more of them all the time, in our streets and our apartment complexes, cavorting on picnic tables and playgrounds—or so the pandemic’s hyperventilating news reports ...