This week's question: Houston's mayor says that "drug-addicted rats" are scarfing piles of seized marijuana and magic mushrooms stored at the city's police headquarters. If a TV network were to make a ...

For starters, like many mammals, rats’ eyes are positioned on the side of their head. This gives them a wider visual field of view, which is useful in the wild for spotting and avoiding predators.

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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 ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations ... about wildlife difficult to draw. Similarly, while Caspi applauded ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A rat leaves its burrow at a park in New York City on Sept. 17, 2015. ( AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) A rat ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Rat infestation in many world cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington, and a new study blames warming temperatures, urbanization and other human actions.

Corrigan and I head out on our rat safari. In a flower bed beside a courthouse he paces carefully, feeling the soil beneath his boots. Sensing a hollow space, he jumps up and down heavily a few times.

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