For the past few months, we’ve been hearing anecdotal evidence of a rodent resurgence in Arlington. At least one well-known local civic leader has privately identified the burgeoning rat population in ...

Scientists who went shopping recently at an Asian food market got more than they bargained for—a rodent unknown to science was being sold as meat. Discovered in Laos, Southeast Asia, the animal is ...

In what animal rights activists see as a significant development, a pair of U.K. health regulators recently wrote that drug researchers should seek alternatives to a controversial test in rodents that ...

Over the last few years, animal advocates sought to limit the use of anticoagulant rat poisons due to the dangers they pose to wildlife and pets — even as Massachusetts cities continue to struggle ...

A one-ton "fossil rat" has been discovered in South America, scientists announced today. The prehistoric, bull-size creature—the world's largest recorded rodent—has been identified from a ...

A Connecticut town is piloting a rodent birth control program to manage the town’s rodent population in a more environmentally responsible way, and animal rights advocates are hailing it as a success.