Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

Today's health news includes the genetics of picky eating, new rules on research misconduct, and a Science issue devoted to ...

Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, ...

Philadelphia ranked within the top-10 in a recent ranking of America's most rat-infested cities, topping other urban ...

Are rat sightings on the "uptick" in Hoboken? Here's what to do if you see one. An education session is coming up.

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of dogs hunting rats that could upset some readers. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a ...

A judge refused to throw out the state's case against a West Memphis Family Dollar distribution center alleged to be infested ...

Michael Worobey, one of the new study's authors, said they found which sub-populations of animals might have transmitted the ...

A Southern Indiana father was found guilty on three felony charges after his 6-month-old son “nearly died,” according to prosecutors, after suffering more than 50 untreated rat bites at the ...

Earlier this year, a U.S. Attorney accepted a guilty plea from Family Dollar in a federal criminal case related to rat ...

Rats are increasingly pestering neighbors in Malden.“They run around the day like they own the neighborhood,” said Ryan ...