Rat vigilantes on the Upper West Side are placing exposed rat poison in the tree beds, endangering children and pets. Two Upper West Side dogs, Waffles, a one-year-old rescue coon hound mix, and Beti, ...

The Vangunu giant rat is a species that exists only on one of the Solomon Islands. Local residents had deep knowledge of the rat, which researchers had never seen alive. With the help of the ...

A mysterious tree-dwelling rat that is three times the size of the common rat has been captured in photographs for the first time ever. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne and ...

An 18-inch rat that lives in trees and is able to open coconuts with its teeth has been discovered in the Solomon Islands. The rat, known as Uromys vika, has been particularly hard to find, becoming ...

A new species of rat, measuring a foot and a half long and weighing more than 2 pounds, was recently discovered in the Solomon Islands. So, Rodents of Unusual Size do exist. Uromys vika is the first ...

Queens residents say rats have “invaded most perishables” at a Dollar Tree store, leaving droppings on shelving alongside nibbled-open bags of food. Locals disgusted by the conditions at the Dollar ...

It’s 2020 – and with the Lunar New Year just weeks away, farmers in Vietnam have come up with a unique way to herald the Year of the Rat. These bonsai trees are shaped to look like rats, and were made ...