Rats showcase a unique form of communication by emitting ultrasonic calls during their playful and social interactions, which are inaudible to humans. Often occurring at a frequency of 50 kHz, these ...

A study on rats found that daily doses of psilocin mucate, a stable salt of psilocin (the main psychoactive metabolite responsible for the psychoactive effects of psilocybin, a psychedelic drug) ...

In southeastern Madagascar, patches of forest that were once cut down to make way for farms are slowly regenerating naturally ...

When scientists started tickling rats in the lab, they picked up something completely unexpected on their microphones. What ...

Rats have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to enjoy living where people live. That's how a biologist tried to explain people's hatred for the rodents in a television news feature about rats gnawing ...

How’s your 2024 Bingo card looking so far? Does it have “rats find joy in driving” on it? Because the scientists who taught rats how to drive are back, and their latest research suggests rats enjoy ...

Beachwood officials are urging residents to rat-proof their homes and properties as the rodents become a regular sight.

Rats are a scourge on island wildlife all over the world. But an island off the coast of Ireland is showing how to successfully gain the upper hand ...

Go inside a program that trains giant ‘hero rats’ to sniff out deadly explosives in a newly streaming documentary from FRONTLINE’s archives. Bart Weetjens with a baby African giant pouched rat, in a ...