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Learn to Live with Rats, Because You Already Do
Rats eat 42 billion tons of our food each year worldwide and cost the United States an estimated $19 billion annually. They have earned our fear but deserve our respect.
Researchers Are Chipping and Surveilling NYC's Rats
New research gets close and personal with some of the city's most hated residents.
Traumatic Tales of Losing Childhood Pets
From the darkly funny to just plain dark, here are tales of your deceased friends with tails.
New York Will Never Win Its War Against Rats
Despite a $3 million effort to control the rat population, 2016 has seen more rodent-related complaints so far in 2016 than it did in the first four months of 2015.
On the Front Lines of New York City's War on Rats
A new pest control program is showing signs of success, but here the rats still rule.
Watch These Ugly-Cute Naked Mole-Rats Party in the Lab
These cancer-resistant rodents may hold the key to human longevity, but that doesn’t mean they can’t kick back once in a while.
How Did Two Yosemite Park Campers Catch the Plague?
And other questions you might be wondering about the scary-sounding disease.
This Video Shows How Easy It Is for Rats to Climb up Through Your Toilet
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How Does a Rat Learn to Dunk Tiny Basketballs? We Asked a Rat-Training Teen
18-year-old Abby Roeser says she hopes her videos help people gain a better understanding of what the rodents are really like.
Michigan Is Booting Aramark From Its Prisons, but Not Over Rat-and-Maggot-Tainted Food
A disagreement over financing comes after the company's allegedly unsanitary and unsafe working conditions made headlines in the state and around the country.