Scurrying around the blood-soaked dioramas and giant skeletons popping up on suburban lawns this October, you may find a red-eyed and sharp-fanged rubber rat or two. Because of their perceived menacing demeanor,

The war on rats in Washington D.C. is not going well. But if the city takes a page out of New York's waste management workbook, there could be a silver lining piercing the darkness of the sewers.

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas pedal. Before long, they were steering with surprising ...

A surprising new study sheds light on the origins of addiction. Kurashova - stock.adobe.com A new study of lab rats who were given cocaine is shedding new light on the cognition of addiction. Identifying populations vulnerable to substance use disorder is ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small ...

Florida is known for sunny days, beautiful beaches, and unfortunately, pests. With palmetto bugs, pythons, and cane toads, Floridians are up to their ears in pesky animals. You may know how to humanely kill pythons and cane toads, but what about palm rats?