Maybe you've crossed paths with Scabby the Rat in the past. It's a giant, inflatable rodent that unions around the country sometimes install in front of a business during demonstrations. This month, ...

While we have several native species of mice in Massachusetts, we surprisingly have no native rats. Deer mice, white-footed mice, woodland jumping mice, meadow jumping mice, red-backed voles, meadow ...

There’s a literal rat race happening right now in the Puget Sound region as rodents thrive alongside the growing human population. Rats are not native to the region and are believed to have arrived ...

There is hardly a New Yorker who hasn’t seen Rattus norvegicus scurrying along an empty train track or rooting around a garbage bag. Although one gets a gnawing feeling that rat sightings have been in ...

Cincinnati families who lived near horse stables or dairies often found their houses overrun with rats, to the dismay of the Health Department. By 1920, the residents of Mt. Adams had exhausted ...

Larry Mantle speaks with Robert Sullivan, author of a new book titled RATS: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury). It tells of the centuries-old ...

Humans have a long and complicated history with rats. Throughout history, rats have eaten our food and transmitted diseases, so it makes sense that there’d be a certain amount of contention between us ...

SUNRISE, Fla. — It was October of 1995. Inside a cramped and humid locker room at the old Miami Arena, as the Florida Panthers were getting ready to take the ice against the Calgary Flames, a giant ...

There’s a literal rat race happening right now in the Puget Sound region as rodents thrive alongside the growing human population. Rats are not native to the region and are believed to have arrived ...