It was a rat race to nowhere. A New York City rat is being compared to “Sisyphus” after it was spotted making a never-ending climb up a descending escalator. A clip of the rat’s futile-seeming ascent ...

A rat got loose on the field and in the visitor’s dugout during Friday’s New York Mets-Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, leading to a funny postgame quote from Mets first baseman Dominic Smith. The ...

Since at least the 1500s, people have been mesmerized by the legend of a so-called “rat king.” Usually depicted as a mass of a rodents with their tails tied in a knot, the specific details can vary by ...

YES, RATS DO come up toilets. Yes, it’s a startling and scary image: those beady eyes, pointy front incisors, long scaly tails, their rhythmic sniffing. Sniffing for what? Your doom, that’s what. You ...

Animals, especially mammals, need oxygen to keep their bodies and brains humming along. But leave it to the African naked mole-rat to buck that trend. The rodents are bizarre in just about every way.