Winslow Dumaine, a comedian, writer, and artist in Chicago, tweeted that he recently made a pilgrimage to the famous Chicago Rat Hole.This is one of the Windy City's most famous tourist attractions, second only to the Ar...

Rat owners will tell you their creature of choice...  ...is comic by Safely Endangered will remind you why rats

(Video Link)There are a lot of urban legends out t...  ...e that aren't true -particularly when it comes to rats . Sometimes though, these stories are all too true...  ...are all too true. If you've ever heard rumors of rats crawling up through the sewers and into your toil...  ...hoped they were some of those m...

Did you know yesterday was World Rat Day? I sure d...  ...little late. So what is World Rat Day and why do rats need their own holiday?Because rats get a bum rap, but they actually make pretty grea...  ...um rap, but they actually make pretty great pets. Rats are smart, friendl...

(Photo: Holger Ellgard)Last year, Gareth Morgan, a...  ...ight idea. The city of Wellington is plagued with rats . He wants them dead, so he's offering students at...  ...ity for the bounty.Here's what I'd do:1. Purchase rats online in bulk.2. Hand them over to Gareth Morgan...

An abandoned cruise ship has been floating in inte...  ...out there somewhere.“There will be a lot of rats and they eat each other. If I get aboard I'll hav...  ...p was more likely than not to still pose a threat. Rats eating each other? The most reasonable response I...

New York City is notorious for its small living sp...  ...l living spaces, which is why it makes sense that rats are catching on as pets in the city, since they t...  ...know they'll make it fashionable -including their rats . At the recent Fancy Rat Convention, New Yorkers...  ...tion, New Yorkers showed off ju...

Cleaning up the messes we make out of Mother Natur...  ...lands around the world, inadvertently introducing rats that ate native species, particularly their eggs....  ...ound of seabirds, South Georgia became overrun by rats , and the number of birds there dropped like a sto...  ...erways.Some seabird scavengers...

The following is an article from The Annals of Imp...  ...t. We implanted the motor cortex of the brains of rats with silicon electrodes. Using the correlation te...  ...ique, we monitored the activity of neurons in our rats while simultaneously tracking the activity of sto...  ...per second) from recorded neuro...

(Videos Link) Sorry to get your hopes up kids, but this isn't a hot shower video, it's just an adorable one featuring a simply precious furless little rat getting a good scrub on. Via I Can Has Cheeseburger...