If you've spotted a rat in your kitchen or found something gnawed through in the garage, your first instinct is probably to panic. Totally fair. But before you call an exterminator or buy a box of ...

The Stony Brook University baseball team signed a new player – but he’s 5 years old. Jordan Marotta is a very special lefty. He was born without a left hand. News 12’s Kevin Maher has his story.

Rats seem to be everywhere across the city, and agencies across the boroughs say the fight to eradicate them is far from over. More than 2,000 rat sightings were reported by the city in the Bronx ...

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – Beside a mountain of destroyed rubble, Samah al-Dabla lives in a makeshift tent with her children, gripped by a fear that did not exist in their lives before the war: the rats ...

BOISE, Idaho — An invasion of stowaways had arrived from liberal coastal states, the lawmakers asserted. “Decisive action” was needed, one said, to “slash this problem through the heart and stop the ...

Scientists have long assumed that queen transitions in naked mole rat colonies were always chaotic and violent. But new research suggests another, more peaceful path also exists. Smithsonian’s ...

Naked mole rat queens rule with an iron forepaw: these wrinkly, bucktoothed monarchs forbid any other female from reproducing—that is, until they die and all hell breaks loose. Then the ...

Last year, Washington was ranked the “rattiest” city in the country—and, it seems, city government has taken that personally. “This spring, we’re combining baiting, tracking powder, & an innovative ...

The latest battle in the 2026 redistricting wars will be decided Tuesday in Virginia, where a map favoring Democrats in 10 of 11 districts looks narrowly poised to spell doom for Republican incumbents ...

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 volunteers have ...

The island’s native plants appear to be making a similarly fast comeback, with thousands of new native Pisoniatree seedlings emerging where none were previously. John Gilardi, an ornithologist working ...