Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwater could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets! The ...

What do you call the bad version of a cherry on top, or icing on the cake? For those in King County reeling from back-to-back atmospheric rivers and the ensuing flooding chaos, it might just be toilet ...

HOUSTON – Dozens of rats have made Houston’s City Hall their nocturnal playground, scurrying across sidewalks and diving into burrows on the building’s front lawn just days before the city’s annual ...

The Phoenix Mercury logo is getting a glow-up. And if you want to see it, all you have to do is look in the sky on Friday night. For the first time since the team debuted in 1997, the team uniforms ...

Carl Lipo receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is often portrayed in popular culture as an enigma. The ...

The United Kingdom is set to begin injecting children—some as young as ten years old—with puberty-blocking drugs in what the Daily Mail calls the first NHS-backed clinical experiment of its kind. Two ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Carl Lipo, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE CONVERSATION) Rapa ...

Watch the War Rats trailer for this action shoot 'em up game to see gameplay and the terrible enemies you'll face. Run and gun alongside your troops in the Great Rat War against the vile TechnoRat ...

From a potential scare at the Indianapolis Zoo on Friday morning due to a chimpanzee escaping its enclosure to a pet parent receiving an unexpected greeting from her cat, animals have kept people on ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts. A rat attacks a bat as it flies by in this still image from a ...