Essentially, living near the woods without the company of rodents, insects, and other pests is difficult. That’s because, as ...

Although cute, wild rats are disease vectors ... This may be when they accidentally consume rodenticide or prey on rodents ...

A woman has shared her horror at finding a dead rat in a loaf of bread - but only after eating half of it. Nombulelo Mkumla bought a loaf of whole wheat brown bread from a local shop in South ...

The brown rat is an omnivorous scavenger, and it doesn’t seem to care at all whether its food is fresh or spoiled. It will eat soap, oil paints, shoe leather, the bone of a bone-handled knife ...

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

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A woman has been left ‘traumatised’ after finding a ...

A six-month-old baby was found covered in blood with bone exposed after being brutally attacked and bitten more than 50 times by rats. The infant, who was resting in a bassinet in his parents ...

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 ...

Rats have gotten into confiscated drugs at New Orleans’ aging police headquarters, munching the evidence as the building is taken over by mould and cockroaches, the city’s police chief has said.

Marigolds are the best flower to use as a companion plant, meaning gardeners strategically plant marigolds next to their crops to stop rats and other pests from eating them. These flowers emit ...

They are vaccinated against leptospirosis, a common rat-borne disease, and because they shake the rats but don’t eat them ... He is so cute that, back on the street, semi-inebriated 20 ...

Andrew Barrett is hardly a rat sympathizer. He's spent years waging war on the rodents who flock to his community garden in Brooklyn, smashing the entrances to their underground burrows ...