A full moon conjures an image of a person transforming into a werewolf -- a mythical story of moonlight explaining the unexplainable. While werewolves may only exist in the movies, unusual animal and ...

Brood X cicadas are emerging from the ground in mass quantities in 15 states. Rats, which eat cicadas, will appear in high numbers to eat the cicadas and remain after as they search for another food ...

Discovering you have rats or other rodents around and in your home is unpleasant. They can cause lots of damage, wreaking havoc on your yard, garden, or worse—interiors. One of the best ways to ...

Rat sightings are up in Boise, Eagle and other parts of the Treasure Valley. But officials say no one has authority to stop ...

Rats are smart, not lazy, are perpetually gnawing and communicate with their excrement. These are some of the rodent facts taught at citywide rat academies that have the goal of educating communities ...

It’s a steamy summer day and John Stellberger is standing in a parking lot next to a reeking, oversized dumpster. He's staring at a series of fist-sized holes in the ground: rat burrows. The dumpster ...

Four-hundred dead rats form a pattern of parallel lines on the ground of a farmyard, trophies taken in a single day of hunting by a pack of highly honed and heralded hounds. However, the key player ...

In a heartening tale of critter courage, an African giant pouched rat named Ronin has earned himself a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for his life-saving nose. Ronin, working for the ...

A new study considers the role of the moon in driving a particularly rare occurrence: the solo journey of a naked mole rat from one underground colony to start a new one. A full moon conjures an image ...