The Black Death first swept through Europe in the mid-1300s, killing tens of millions of people. But it didn’t stop there—the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis hid inside the bodies of black ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was bad for so many reasons. Beyond the obvious problem of so many people getting sick at once, the economy suffered, education fell behind, and we suffered socially. However, it ...

Rats are common where food, water, and shelter are easy to find. Signs of rat activity in your yard include holes 2 to 4 inches in diameter, rat droppings, and partially eaten fruits and vegetables in ...

Play this video game to try your paw at surviving as Cheddar the D.C. rat They burrow in gardens and shelter in nests of shredded cardboard under stoops. In alleyways, they quench their thirst at ...

A popular real-time travel and map app is offering a new and unexpected feature that is exciting New Yorkers—rat tracking. Transit is a mobile app that provides real-time public transport data, giving ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Brown rats are the undisputed winners of the ...

Aristotle once theorized that nature abhors a vacuum. And as many of us retreated indoors during the pandemic, rats were great at filling that vacuum, especially in cities. Lawrence Wu is a New York ...

Rats are likely Milwaukeeans least favorite neighbor. It's tricky to know exactly how many rats are scurrying around Milwaukee, said Lorie Gallup, residential code enforcement manager for the ...