Business has been booming for a Black Country rat catcher who has been sharing his views on the rise in rodent activity amid ...

Deadly diseases can jump from animals to humans, as the COVID-19 pandemic vividly illustrated. A new study led by researchers at UC Santa Barbara, University of Réunion and Duke University reveals ...

The black rat, Rattus rattus, originated in southern Asia, and likely migrated into Europe along the spice trade, and from there to the rest of the world, arriving in Madagascar between the 10th ...

But those advancements bypassed the residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, a high-poverty, predominantly Black county where fewer than 1 in 5 residents are served by a conventional municipal sewer ...

They can also be used for balance, to attack predators, or to communicate with other rats. As for rat fur, it can be white, gray, brown, or black. Rat teeth are sharp and strong, especially the ...

Black rats in Madagascar’s farmlands, not its rainforests, are spreading a deadly virus to humans — and it’s tied to how we reshape nature. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Rats have long been notorious for ...

In this viral video, a brave man saves a duck being strangled by the powerful grip of a black rat snake! Read on to learn how this farmer suddenly became a snake catcher. Deb and Al Potter have been ...

The study shows that it's not just the black rats, but also the way humans use land, like farming or cutting down forests, that has affected the risk of spreading hantavirus in Madagascar. Listen to ...

Rats have long been associated with and blamed for the spread of plague, a disease that has killed over 200 million people throughout the past two millennia. The Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic ...