The saying goes that Kansas City in August is hotter than two rats in a wool sock, but it turns out the rising temperatures ...

One evening earlier this week, Thayler Aragão was walking through a riverside park near his home in Brazil when a curious ...

More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

New York City is getting rattier, thanks to climate change. That’s a takeaway from a new study, which found cities that ...

Colossal Squid is the world's largest squid. It's known for its huge size and long tentacles. This large marine creature is ...

Based on individual trends within cities, Washington was by far the leader in rat increases, followed by San Francisco, ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

Urban ecologists looked at 16 cities from Tokyo to New Orleans and found New York City had the fourth-highest rat population ...

The US state's tradition of using a large rodent to predict the seasons dates back to the Pennsylvania Dutch belief that if a ...

Tourists in Czechia’s capital regularly come face to face with nutria, large semiaquatic rodents native to South America that ...

“When rodent populations are high ... “This paper is by far the largest data-driven effort to understand changes in urban rat populations ever attempted,” said Drexel University ecology ...