Rats! Say the word and people envision many different things: vermin or pests, lab experiments, scary movies, even snake food ...

The Oregon Zoo is welcoming a pair of giant rodents known for their size, smarts and sense of smell, and are now ready to be seen by visitors at the zoo, officials announced Friday.

Dear Dr. Jorden: I have a great menagerie of animals as pets. I would like to get a pet rat or two, but someone told me that it was illegal to own rats. Is that true? I called the Billings Animal ...

NEW YORK - Almost every New Yorker saw Ruth McDaniels' viral comments saying she saw "rats the size of Crocs" running up and down the street of her Harlem neighborhood. McDaniels made the remark in ...

(CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the ...