No one wants to find a rat swimming around in their toilet bowl. If one turns up, however, it’s best that you know what to do ...

If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up their use of poisons and traps, the number of rats ...

When it comes to the most rodent-infested cities in the United States, it's certainly not a rat race to take the top spot. However, a new list says one Massachusetts city ranks high among the ...

Rats can’t vomit. This may be a function of their anatomy—their stomachs are “not well structured for moving contents towards the esophagus” is how one study delicately put it—or it may have something ...

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops. By Amanda Holpuch The last time a rat found its way to Alaska’s St. Paul Island, in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Some residents in the Irish Channel neighborhood say rats are causing chaos. With one person saying a rat gnawed through the wiring of her car. They're fast, furry, and proving to be ...

City data actually suggest that rat sightings are declining. But horror stories are everywhere, and a single rat in a stroller is enough to set off a panic. By Christopher Maag Rachel Chase, a ...