rats
Inside India's Temple of Holy Rats
Worshippers believe the 20,000 or so rats, which live inside the temple, are reincarnated descendants of a Hindu goddess.
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.
People Show Us Their Most Embarrassing Possessions
Expired ecstasy pills, frozen rats and childhood photos of Harry Styles.
Turns Out Your Burger Has Rat Meat and Human DNA in It
Is that going to stop you paying €15 for one next time you're at the pub? NO IT IS NOT.
Big Rat Eats Small Rat
If you want to win the rat race you just have to be the biggest, hungriest rat, right? Find out in this new comic by Berliac.
New York Got Richer, Weirder and Angrier in 2014
The rent stayed high, hip-hop stayed strange, the police stayed awful and a lot of people wanted Taylor Swift to stay away.
The Return of the Black Death
We went to Madagascar in the fall of 2013 because the village of Beranimbo had been an epicenter of a black plague outbreak that resulted in nearly 600 cases and more than 90 deaths across the country. Madagascar reports the most instances of the...
The Hot Zone: Black Death Returns to Madagascar
The black plague returns to Madagascar's rural highlands.
I'm Scared of Storks
The stork: A vulture scrotum affixed to a two-foot-long pair of rusted old scissors.