Researchers examined rodent behavior to show how different populations are related and how their movement spreads leptospirosis.

Modern rodenticides can kill rats with a single dose and readily pass up the food chain to larger carnivores. They are widely used and largely unregulated.

Rats are well known to cause problems for humans. But we need a new approach to our relationship with them.

When researchers transferred a longevity gene from naked mole rats to mice, the mice lived longer and staved off age-related diseases like cancer.

Here’s what determines if a problematic wild animal is saveable or cullable.

A substance typically extracted from a rare Chinese plant may be the secret to humanely and sustainably controlling rats on a large scale.

Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe.

Rats are disrupting the flow of nutrients towards the sea on many tropical islands – this has consequences for fish behaviour and the wider ecosystem.

Rodents are the most numerous – and least studied – of all Earth’s mammals.