Rats are, in many ways, better adapted to cities than the humans that built them. While urbanites struggle with crowds, sparse parking spaces, and their upstairs neighbors stomping around at 4 ...

A tiny marsupial species declared extinct decades ago may still be hopping around in the deserts of Australia — and a new study offers a potential roadmap for its rediscovery. The desert rat-kangaroo, ...

There are at least some markers of joy that appear to be quite widespread across animals. One is vocalizations that resemble ...

The study, published in Immunity & Ageing, was conducted on rats to examine how quickly high-fat diets affect the brain ...

The opioid epidemic has claimed more than half a million lives in the U.S. since 1999, about three-quarters of them men, ...

In prior bird flu outbreaks, there’ve been several documented cases of feline-to-feline spread, but ingestion seems to be the ...

Using rat and inspection data from 16 major cities between 2007 and 2024, researchers found that Washington, D.C. gained more ...

Recent research throws into question whether GLP-1 drugs increase the risk of certain types of thyroid cancer.

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When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ...

One resident told the BBC he had trapped 17 rats in two months Refuse workers are set to begin an indefinite walk out as residents fear bin strikes are exacerbating a city's rat problem.