Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

The government has asked for help from the armed forces to tackle the crisis as the situation in Britain's second city ...

Vermin have long plagued Scotland’s largest city, with more than 13,000 reports of rats made to the council last year.

Dianne Osborne woke to a chorus of squeaks coming from about 50 rats. But the critters weren't intruders who broke in ...

The 3D brain map includes more than 200,000 cells, 523 million synapses and over two miles of axons, representing the most detailed wiring diagram of a piece of mammal brain ever constructed ...

Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine ...

A decade ago, nobody reported seeing rats in their homes around the South Shore of Lake Tahoe, but that has now changed.

In a letter sent yesterday to the dictionary's editor Rachel Fletcher, Peta's Vice President of Programmes Elisa Allen argued that the current informal definition is "unfair" to the rodents. The ...

In a world packed with quirky rules and oddball regulations, one law manages to squeak its way to the top. Tucked away in a ...

A third fatal case of hantavirus was confirmed in Mammoth Lakes. All three cases this year occurred earlier than the usual ...

Rats don’t always have the best reputations, but a rat called Ronin with a super sense of smell is working to change that.