In gangster movies, mob bosses worry that a “rat” will betray them. Now, criminal wildlife poachers might need to start fearing real rats. Scientists have trained giant African rats to sniff out rhino ...

They nibble through anything near the ground – rubbish and cars – and even bite sleeping children’s fingers. The area provides all the conditions rats need to thrive. The sewerage system and taps leak ...

(CNN) — The millions of Norway rats that live alongside New Yorkers are among the animals that can catch the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study says. However, reports of the virus spreading from ...

SLUNG OVER Pen Keo’s shoulder is a big wicker basket containing wire-mesh traps, which he lays, one by one, on a rice field where rats are known to scamper. There are so many traps there already, it ...

Brown rats are seen on video for the first time ever hunting bats systematically, doing so by stalking the flying mammals before catching them out of midair. Though the footage is historical and ...

A Brooklyn dog has taken the city’s rat problem into her own paws. Luna, a 7-year-old, 31-pound Schnauzer-mix, has caught and killed more than 200 of the rodents since early 2023. “She is like the ...

Mary is GBH radio’s Nightside news anchor, has worked on-air in Boston radio newsrooms for more than 30 years and says she has loved every minute of it. Feedback? Questions? Story ideas? Reach out to ...

Last month I examined how machine learning could be used to detect low and slow insider threats. In this, the final installment of my trilogy on real-world use cases from the recent Verizon Data ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Downing Street has a new occupant -- a street-smart character with a licence to kill. Larry the cat has been brought in to the Prime Minister's official residence to clean up a gang ...