Rats

Banksy is working from home, creating a new artwork that uses one of his most famous recurring subjects, the rat, for a commentary on quarantine during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

A new study finds that "honesty is enforced" by a "smell of hunger" when rats decide to share food with their compatriots.

Researches think it could be possible that both human and rat species have seen parallel shifts in their DNA.

While the undertaking sounds like an intriguing proposition in and of itself, the purpose of the study is to highlight the importance of enriched environments in lab-based animal studies.

The enzyme NicA2-J1 was found to reduce nicotine levels in the blood, without leading to any withdrawal symptoms.

Prosecutors said anesthetist Khaw Kim-sun, 53, killed his wife because she would not agree to a divorce, but never intended to hurt his daughter.

The vermin are starving complex ecosystems of a vital but surprising ingredient: bird droppings.

The rodents left a further $25,000 in cash untouched.

Episodic memory is the ability to remember specific events in sequential order, which allows us to recall past experiences.

It took seven years and $13.5 million to clear South Georgia of rats.

Her family has no idea how she contracted the incredibly rare disease.

Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Government authorities put supplies meant for victims of Hurricane Maria in offices they knew were infested.

This is not a rat washing itself like a person.

Black rats have been exonerated in a new study about the Black Death.

"So is animal sentience a big deal? Yes, it is."

A new experiment raises concerns about cerebral organoids.

This plague season could be the deadliest yet for Madagasar.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $32 million plan to reduce the city's rat population.

Climate change is enabling this organism, which causes meningitis, to inhabit new regions.

Canavero tells Newsweek the findings show their technique works and they now plan to conduct experiments on dogs.

Brondby was playing against rival FC Copenhagen, which went on to win the match 1-0.

The Prison Reform Trust called the report on London's best-known Victorian jail "shattering."

The presence of these rodents produces feelings of sadness and anxiety, similar to when a person witnesses drug sales or experiences violence in their neighborhood.

Rat complaints to the city's 311 hotline have reached a recent high of 24,000 so far this year.

It represents not only a new species but a new genus as well.

It's Frankenstein meets Animal Planet.

A Belgian NGO is training rats to deal with deadly disease which is prominent in east African countries.

Ants and other bugs will eat the equivalent of 200,000 cookies along a single median strip annually.

For over a hundred years, a rat myth in New York has claimed the city has about 8 million rats, at a ratio of one human to one rat. Not true.