Now, Woody the detection dog has his nose trained on Rathlin’s rats. Ferrets and rats pose a grave risk to puffins and other ...

Rats and mice might be enhancing their strong sense of smell by using sounds unable to be detected by the human ear.

When paleontologists uncovering Ice Age fossils in Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave found the remains of a modern pack rat, they ...

In Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in southern Boston, residents in Hyde Square swapped out rat poison for birth control, ...

The Torrington mayor's office said the city is forming a task force to address the growing number of rat complaints.

A remote Alaskan island mobilizes a “strike team” to hunt a single elusive rat that may have come aboard a visiting ship.