SOLOMON ISLANDS, — An ultra-rare gigantic rat so big that it puts New York City's subway-dwelling rodents to shame has been caught on camera for the first time. Uromys vika, a giant rat known for ...

Rats leave a sinking ship, but in the smoldering wreckage of the British airship R-101 a host of rats was found swarming soon after the crash at Beauvais, France. Rats like the banana oil smell and ...

Now researchers are shedding light on why brown rats are the undisputed winners of the real rat race. The new study suggests that they crawled off ships arriving in North America earlier than ...

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Eric Adams is looking to pay someone with "a virulent vehemence for vermin" as much as $170,000 a year to fill the role of the Big Apple's new rat czar. "There's NOTHING I ...