A whacky government cartoon warned Seattle residents how to deal with rats that might climb up from flooded sewers into toilets – but social media just couldn’t take it seriously.

GUILFORD COUNTY, N.C. — If you've ever wanted a little creature to keep you company, Guilford County Animal Services (GCAS) has just the thing for you! The shelter recently came into 68 friendly rats!

Like many other common garden pests, rats seek to move indoors during winter because these spaces offer warmth, shelter, and ...

Rats with naturally high stress levels were far more likely to self-administer cannabis when given access. Behavioral testing showed that baseline stress hormones were the strongest predictor of ...

Animals are way smarter than we might actually imagine, be it chimpanzees making tools like mini engineers, parrots talking ...

Who could have predicted the popularity of Shrek as a character? What started as a humble if irreverent fairy tale picture book in 1990 later blossomed into an animated feature film franchise, a ...

“I hate rats,” hisses James Lorenz Nicholes, with a sinister smile upon his small, ratlike features. “I would rather kill a rat than an elephant—any day.” Had they been wise, 8,000,000 rats would have ...

Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) has filed a complaint with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), raising significant issues about Baylor University’s mistreatment of rats in an ...

Well, clearly science is not objective because we know rats, mice, many other non-animals, and individuals of species who are still considered to be animals experience rich emotional lives ( please ...