Even a pet rat can be cute as evidenced by one submission in last year’s Precious Pet Photo contest that benefits the Benton Women’s Club.

Non-profit APOPO says it has trained rats to sniff out elephant tusks, rhino horns, pangolin scales and other wildlife ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats ...

Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis and explosives in the past. And they have now expanded the rodents' scent repertoire to detect illegally trafficked animal ...

Nosferatu isn’t set to hit theaters until the end of December, but a special screening of the film was hosted in Los Angeles ...

With millions of mice and rats in US labs alone, scientists can learn a lot of information from their scurrying test subjects ...

This time, a popular chain restaurant in Guangzhou, China is being called out for their hygiene levels after a rodent was ...

Rather than rats in general, this is about a type of native wildlife called woodrats. The other type of rats, the common Norway rats, are an introduced animal that originated in northern China and ...

Hailey Bieber posted a photo of her 2-month-old son Jack Blues in a skeleton onesie on Instagram on Nov. 1. The snap featured ...

While the jury is still out on whether or not the African giant pouched rat is cute, it’s harder to deny the impressive power of its nose. Tanzania-based non-profit APOPO has already ...