Back in 2015, this much loved tortoise was about 90 years old and living a quiet life in Pembroke in West Wales. Her owner, Jude Ryder, thought she was settled in for a peaceful hibernation in a ...

The National League Board’s solution is a campaign to increase the number of promotion spots to three, using phrases like ...

For a small donation, people can request feral cats to be named after old flames before being given the snip. So far ex-partners desperate for retribution have raised some £2,000.

'Rat Daddy' takes New Yorkers on late-night rat tours A self-described “Rat Daddy” is leading nightly rat tours across New York City to raise awareness about sanitation, trash and rodent problems. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Animal rescue volunteers are racing to find new homes for hundreds of pet rats found running amok in a filthy, now condemned house in the New York City suburbs. A group of about ten ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s and perfected an intricate, ...

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 ...

Rats have gotten a bad reputation over the years for being dirty, garbage-eating carriers of disease. But these ubiquitous rodents are also clever and capable of learning complex tasks, even using ...

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark. To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of ...

After researching the rodent indent, scientists are over 98% sure it came from a squirrel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

What naked mole-rats lack in the looks department they make up for it in longevity, living healthily for nearly four decades. Now scientists have uncovered just how they repair their DNA – and it has ...

New York Mayor Eric Adams has waged a years-long campaign against the city’s rats, dubbing them “public enemy number one” and even appointing a “rat czar” to tackle the problem in 2023. But with the ...