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 ...

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 ...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci is gone from government, but his long shadow looms large in Washington. DOGE is fixing that. On ...

The food coloring has been linked to thyroid cancer in rats and is already banned in parts of Europe, Asia and certain US ...

To hear Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their allies tell it, the federal government’s apparatus for doling out scientific research grants is a woke slush fund for silly scientific studies that offer ...

GOP chair demands Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya make an exception to his open-mindedness and not further study possible vaccine-autism link. Democrats back off COVID playbook, Sanders demands regulatory ...

A recent study revealed that rising temperatures may be linked to increasing rat infestations in cities like New York.