ABC News looks at New York City’s fight against rats as city officials and residents take matters into their own hands, ...

Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys ansorgei), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception. With its intelligence and ...

Feel like dissing instead of kissing your former lover this Valentine’s Day? Think your ex is more like a rat than a prince?

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

St. Cloud stores are hearing complaints from farmers over issues with equipment and animal feed due to rodents. Here are some options that might help.

Cities around the world are facing a growing rat problem, and scientists say climate change and urbanization are driving the ...

Have you noticed you’ve got rats living in your homes" target="_blank">house or garden? While you might want to get rid of ...

Itchy skin, or pruritus, can be a symptom of some cancers, including blood-related, skin, liver, gallbladder, and bile-duct cancer cancers. However, other causes of itching are more common. Itching ...

A detection dog is being deployed to search for signs of rats on some of the Isles of Scilly. Kuki and her handlers Laura Bambini, of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and ...

Today, we're talking about rats. They've been in the news a lot lately - whether at the center of a ongoing downtown coney ...

If scorching heat waves, destructive storms, prolonged droughts and rising seas aren’t enough to make some folks fear the ...