On May 15, 2024, in São Paulo, Brazil, @brunaoicrip shared a video of a funny and surprising moment with her pet rat. In the video, the owner walks toward the bed and suddenly notices her tiny rat ...

The Range in Enfield has been fined £250,000 after environmental health officers uncovered a severe rat infestation, with urine, faeces, and ...

Rats! Say the word and people envision many different things: vermin or pests, lab experiments, scary movies, even snake food. But many also have a great fondness for them as pets. Rats are often ...

It has black button eyes and long, thin whiskers that tremble when it looks around curiously. Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around ...

The Chhattisgarh High Court upheld a divorce, ruling that a wife calling her husband "pet rat" for obeying his parents constitutes cruelty. The court noted evidence supported the husband's claims of ...

New York City's rat czar has scuttled off the job two years after she was appointed to the role. Kathleen Corradi, former Citywide Director of Rodent Mitigation, was appointed to the position by New ...

Ricky Watkins had a secret when coming to school. His walk had a happy jaunt, and his eyes had a mischievous glint, and he had an “ear to ear” grin! Ricky was wearing an elastic waist tight coat for ...

Across the many thousands of movies, TV shows, comic books, video games, Broadway musicals, and more that Disney has produced over the past century, the iconic brand has produced countless beloved ...

New York City is home to some three million rats, and learning how these rodent residents navigate and communicate is vital to understanding their impact on humans. A new preprint shows attempts to ...

Here in New York City, we humans crown ourselves rulers of the five boroughs—but the kingdom is split. We cohabit with a parallel society that commutes along subway rails, picnics in parks and ...

Rats. Squeezing into drainpipes. Scrabbling through sewers. Squeaking as they scurry across the subway tracks and over the gutters of New York’s streets—the squadrons of rodents that live off the city ...