In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations. A rat scurries across West Broadway in New York City. A study looking at ...

Detectives have arrested a baby's parents after a baby was attacked by a field rat in Anderson County, South Carolina.According to the Anderson County Sheriff's Office, a 6-month-old girl is ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Urban rats in Boston carry and spread Leptospira bacteria, the cause of leptospirosis, as they migrate within the city. Genetic analysis shows distinct rat ...

Chinese-speaking IronHusky hackers are targeting Russian and Mongolian government organizations using upgraded MysterySnail remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky's ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but one named Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that. Ronin and his landmine-sniffing rat pack are making a name for rodents ...

An African giant pouched rat is being honored in the record books after detecting more than 100 landmines and other undetonated explosives in Cambodia, Belgian non-profit APOPO announced Friday.

Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday.

Scientists have some good news for rats and some bad news for city dwellers. Rat populations are rising in cities including Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, reports a study released Friday ...

Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher. If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Washington, DC, had the ...