Rat vigilantes on the Upper West Side are placing exposed rat poison in the tree beds, endangering children and pets. Two Upper West Side dogs, Waffles, a one-year-old rescue coon hound mix, and Beti, ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

A mysterious tree-dwelling rat that is three times the size of the common rat has been captured in photographs for the first time ever. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne and ...

The latest front in New York City’s war on rats? Some 600,000 tree beds on the street. City officials on Sunday announced they are investing $877,000 to establish new teams focused on clearing out rat ...

There are fears of a resurgence of a serious disease as the number of rats rise in a popular park, a former councillor has said. Mark Wright, who previously worked for Bristol City Council, said he is ...

On the nights before the Christmas tree lighting, all through Hermann Square Park, rats were scurrying, scrounging for garbage in the dark. As Houston city officials prepared for the annual holiday ...

A neighborhood group has successfully raised alarms about a suspected rat infestation at a Dollar Tree location in Queens, New York, leading to the store’s temporary closure. Residents of Ozone Park, ...

It’s 2020 – and with the Lunar New Year just weeks away, farmers in Vietnam have come up with a unique way to herald the Year of the Rat. These bonsai trees are shaped to look like rats, and were made ...