Medical care can be costly. Monroe's first owner couldn't afford a minor procedure, but a shelter volunteer got the pooch ...

One consequence of climate change none of us predicted is a plague of rats, their numbers swelling thanks to a record hot summer followed by endless rain. And our region is affected more than most by ...

Black rats (Rattus rattus) have lived alongside humans for millennia, making homes in our dwellings, raiding our food stores, ...

Rodent experts said the prolonged cold weather could kill some rats and cause others to have fewer babies, resulting in a smaller population in the spring. By James Barron It’s been so cold that ...

BOISE, Idaho — Several lawmakers and community members gathered in the Idaho State Capitol in Boise on Thursday afternoon to get the cheese on outsmarting their unwanted whisker-twitching tenants, who ...

While many view Los Angeles as a concrete jungle, there's another side of the city more akin to the wild. L.A. lies within a biodiversity hot spot, with ecologically rich habitats such as the Santa ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their remarkable ability to survive these conditions could offer a key model for ...

In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a ...

Mayor Adams announced a new “Mayor’s Office of Rodent Mitigation” on Tuesday, just two weeks before his term ends. Adams, who will leave office Dec. 31, has made his “war on rats” a hallmark issue of ...

SOMERVILLE — When Kathy Ball-Toncic saw a broad-winged, brilliantly feathered red-tailed hawk swoop across the Somerville Community Path recently, her first reaction was awe. It had something in its ...

A coalition of rattl-ed Brooklynites living on notoriously rodent-infested blocks are pleading with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to bring in a new rat czar – after their calls for the city to renew the ...