By Laura Miller Loren Long has illustrated books by Barack Obama, Madonna and Amanda Gorman. His No. 1 best seller, “The Yellow Bus,” took him in a different direction — one that required ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's little relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in ...

By observing how long rats would struggle to survive in seemingly hopeless conditions, Richter illuminated the psychological ...

Based on the 1971 children’s novel Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, follows a widowed field ... The movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book certainly got us paranoid about witches ...

Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of dogs hunting rats that could upset some readers. The sound of a rat screaming in the jaws of a terrier is the same sound that a ...

NYC Mayor Eric Adams is hosting a national rat summit, gathering leaders to discuss strategies for winning the war on rats.

Rats tend to breed between March and October and are most active between September and November as they infest homes, garages and sheds in search of food to stockpile for the winter. To prevent ...

Although they’re usually associated with dark alleyways and underground sewers, rats are more common than you might think. They’re resilient creatures, and will usually make visits to your ...

The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity In the 1960s and 1970s American ...

One thing is certain: They’re everywhere. NEW YORK CITY Adaptable and smart, rats of several species have evolved to thrive in major cities—yet the sight of a rat scurrying across West ...

In New York, as in all great seaports, rats abound. One is occasionally in ... a shoehorn, several books of matches in which all the match heads had been eaten off, a penny, a dime, and three ...