A Bradford resident says a hole beneath a boundary fence has become a gateway for rats, leaving his family living with years ...

In Berkeley, California, officials confirmed that a man died from leptospirosis after living in a recreational vehicle they said contained hundreds of wild rats. A woman who lived with him also got ...

Open rubbish bins are turning housing areas into feeding and breeding grounds for rats, insects and stray cats, a public health pest expert has warned. Khalid Al Borshaid, a public health pest control ...

Thousands of screaming seabirds wheel through the air above and below me as I lean over the railings of a viewing platform halfway down a cliff. The chocolate backs of guillemots are packed so closely ...

Chris G. Faulkes is at the School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. Read the paper: A queen odour mediates reproductive ...

The Portuguese podengo was a fitting choice to represent Argos in Christopher Nolan's modern day adaption of Homer's epic poem.

It’s tough being a female in a naked mole-rat colony; they live a long life of servitude, maintaining the tunnels of their underground world and caring for the queen’s offspring. Within the colony, a ...

The strange-looking creatures are one of two known mammals that use a social structure like that of bees and ants. A ruling rodent maintains power over her colony via one key chemical compound, accord ...

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, can persist without oxygen for a long time, rarely develop cancer, and can ...

A well-known horticulturist and broadcaster has shared his top tips on keeping rats out of your garden during the warm weather — but issued a stark warning: "They are in probably 100% of gardens." ...

A deadly rat-borne disease outbreak in Berkeley has claimed its first human victim in more than a decade — and health officials say the shocking case involved an RV so overrun with rodents that nearly ...