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 ...

Hantavirus recently made news headlines as the cause of death for Betsy Arakawa, the wife of actor Gene Hackman, but little ...

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 ...

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

Hollywood actor Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa’s recent death brought the rare respiratory disease, Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, to the attention of the public.

Rats are used in various ways, from treating physical ailments to addressing supernatural concerns. Some common uses include: ...