Vintage airplanes had a distinctive look thanks to their black nose, but you may be wondering why they were painted black and why that's no longer the standard.

Dragging the weighted black bait box out from the brush with his boots, Ryan Campbell wiped a few beads of sweat from his ...

Scientists have long known about the ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) mice and rats make. Beyond the range of human hearing, the exact purpose of these high-pitched sounds isn't certain. A new ...

Here's everything to know about roof rats, from how to tell if you have them to what attracts them to how to keep them out of your yard and house.

Rats often scurry into gardens in late spring to search for food, but there is a very simple way to drive these annoying scavengers away so they do not come back.

Gardeners are being urged to put one natural item in their gardens this summer to deter rats and make them turn and scurry ...

If the rat correctly performed what the team called a “nose poke” they were rewarded with flavored rodent pellets. [Related: Rats may have imaginations.] ...

Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly-sought elephant tusks, rhino horns, African blackwoodand pangolin scales.

If rats find both, they can settle in and start reproducing and cause serious problems, Roberts said. Parts of North and Southeast Portland have had the most rat inspections in the city.

Gardening Rats Rats 'will never enter your garden' due to plants 'they can't stand' Rats can be a major problem for gardeners, as they can nest and breed in gardens and can cause a huge amount of ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.