MOROGORO, Tanzania — Often dismissed as pests, rats have long been misunderstood. But the African giant pouched rat (Cricetomys gambianus), the world’s longest, is challenging that perception.

Is rat sibling rivalry a real thing? When watching this video at first glance, you might think competing over food is typical ...

But one way the city tracks the fight against rats is by calls to 311. The downward numbers are a sign, Corradi said, that ...

Smugglers of pangolins, elephant tusks and rhino horn, meet your match: the sniffing rats. Conservationists in Tanzania are training the rodents to smell trafficked animal parts and illegal timber ...

Looking at the few cities where rat reports are down may help in the fight against rats, Richardson and Corradi said. The answer is not more poison or traps, but prevention, the study said.

With limited space and large populations, urban centers have a unique challenge when it comes to handling waste and the rats it attracts. Take New York. It’s America’s largest city by ...

This may well be what it feels like for a real life rat to fight a real life fridge, and in that, Songs Of Rats earns its ...