When Kaylee Byers joined the Vancouver Rat Project a decade ago, she spent a lot of time explaining to others the threat of zoonotic diseases — starting with what “zoonotic” even means.

New York City’s fight against rats has entered the furry beasts’ bedrooms, with the City Council approving a measure to lace rat traps with rodent birth control. The bill, which passed ...

New York has come up with a novel approach to its infamous rat problem - targeting the rodents ... to other animals or the environment. Its ingredients induce a kind of menopause in females ...

Wildlife experts fear that a rat could disrupt the island’s delicate balance, so they are pulling out all the stops. By Amanda Holpuch The last time a rat found its way to Alaska’s St.

A tiny Alaskan island known as the “Galapagos of the North” with a population of just 350 is in a panic over a singular rat that may not even exist. Residents of the St. Paul Island in the ...

What, after all, could be a better description of X these days than a “behavioral sink”? ♦ Published in the print edition of the October 7, 2024, issue, with the headline “Rat Pack.” ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (WKRC) - Officials have greenlit a plan to reduce their city's rat infestation using a "rat contraceptive." It should come as no surprise that New York City has a rat problem.

The Rocahepevirus ratti strain is called "rat HEV" because rats are the primary reservoir of the virus. Since the first human case was reported in a person with a suppressed immune system in Hong ...

And while the Olympic Games might come to mind, this is very different, this is the Rat'lympics. It's not a competition for rodents, but rather so-called "human rats" that make up Rat Patrol Oz ...