Pest control company Orkin recently released their annual “rattiest cities list,” putting a handful of North Carolina cities on the rat map. Chicago took the top spot for the ninth year in a row, ...

In an attempt to save the seabird species Henderson Petrel from extinction on its native South Pacific island, one conservation group is embarking on a mission to eradicate a group of non-native rats ...

While we have several native species of mice in Massachusetts, we surprisingly have no native rats. Deer mice, white-footed mice, woodland jumping mice, meadow jumping mice, red-backed voles, meadow ...

Rats are as bad as human beings in some ways. In the latest Journal of Wildlife Management, Dr. John B. Calhoun, of Johns Hopkins, discusses one such aspect of the rat world: the troubles which ...

SYDNEY, Aug 12 (Reuters Life!) - In Australia, it may take a rat to control a rat. Scientists have high hopes that introducing native Australian bush rats to the area around Sydney Harbour will help ...

A team from the University of Sydney discovered that nature fights back after its bushland camera recorded shocking footage of a native rat species attacking an invasive pest. Jenna Bytheway and Peter ...

Apr. 8—The search for what some might call a terrifyingly large snake in Pittsburgh's Frick Park was called off Thursday, as it turns out he belongs there. Pittsburgh Public Safety tweeted ...