In the isolated Solomon Islands, mothers and fathers have been known to sing to their children of apocryphal rats. In one rhyme, Kamare and Isuku go scurrying up a child, one rat on each side. They ...

Brown rats are generally larger and more aggressive than black rats. In many parts of the world, they displace black rats. At archaeological sites around the world, a certain subset of remains is ...

Rats and their poop can carry diseases such as hantaviruses that can make you sick, but there are ways to clean up and get rid of them humanely. (Photo Credit: Moment RF/Getty Images) Rats are a type ...

The most popular posts on r/animalid are exotic lizards and rare birds – but it’s the haziest trail cam screenshots that feel the most dangerous, the most spectacular ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A rare new species of rat — up to four times the size of the rodents that populate American ...

A Texas rodent threatened by habitat loss may be one step closer to receiving protections under the Endangered Species Act. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the Texas ...

If you have a fear of abnormally large rodents, you might want to look away now. A scientist has discovered a whopping species of rat that measures more than 2.5 feet long – three times the size of a ...

Daniel Cozad, right, and Betsy Miller of the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District visit a flood control channel in in the San Bernardino County city of Highland. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...

For more than 20 years, people in the Solomon Islands have told scientists about huge rats that live in the treetops. But no one could prove the creature actually existed—until November 2015, when ...