Rat poison is sickening and killing D.C. wildlife, study finds. Dead and dying animals brought to a rescue center were tested for rat poison — 85 percent were positive.

The Nazis were not the first to use comparisons with rats to dehumanise targets. In 1909, the US satirical magazine Puck published a cartoon that depicted European immigrants arriving in New York ...

Passenger panic as rat, wild animal get loose aboard plane. An otter and rat that were smuggled in a passenger's hand luggage sparked chaos when they escaped midair and bit an air hostess's hand.

Each animal represents one year in a repeating 12-year cycle, which is calculated based on the Chinese lunar calendar. The 12 animals, in order, are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake ...

Rat birth control, a more ‘humane’ alternative to managing rodents, comes to Wicker Park and Bucktown For 10 years in a row, Chicago has been deemed “America’s rattiest city.” ...

The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements and appearances similar to real animals and even emit ...

Red Dog Farm Animal Rescue Network has taken in 12 of the 68 available rats, but that still leaves plenty to go around. If you want a rat, or two, or three, you can drop by GCAS. MORE WAYS TO GET ...

The Virginia opossum, according to John Smith—that explorer of all things Virginia—“hath a head like a Swine, & a taile like a Rat, and is of the Bignes of a Cat.” Had Smith looked closer ...

CANTON ‒ Suspected human bones, plus 253 rats and other animals both dead and alive, have been removed from "deplorable conditions" inside a northeast Ohio home.

This is at least the third time an animal has been found abandoned in Colonial Heights in the last four months. On Friday, June 29, a dog was found tied to a tree in the parking lot of a PetSmart ...

The animal room was maintained at approximately 23 ± 2°C with 30–80% humidity on a reverse 12-h:12-h light:dark cycle. The study for which the rats were being used required them to be 'sexual ...