Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to ...

A New York bank manager sentenced last week to 9.5 years behind bars for a foiled murder-for-hire scheme against her brother-in-law allegedly told the would-be hitman that "rat poison can do a ...

Italian police have arrested a man who allegedly used a rat poison ingredient to kill members of his family because they were "impure". Mattia Del Zotto, 27, is accused of sprinkling the toxic ...

When wild animals consume rat poison – typically, by eating a poisoned rat – the effects may include internal bleeding and ...

01 seconds and chopped 1.65 seconds off his personal best. But more surprising was the secret ingredient that Arop credited for helping him light the track on fire late in the race: baking soda.

Mostly. They are vaccinated against leptospirosis, a common rat-borne disease, and because they shake the rats but don’t eat them, they don’t ingest poison that rats have eaten (if the owners ...

The California Ecosystems Protection Act of 2023, or Assembly Bill 1322, will place a moratorium on the first-generation anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone, a toxic rat poison still on the market ...

There are many different kinds of mole rats. The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst ...

When the state of New York became the first in the nation to require public schools to test their drinking water for lead in 2016, students learned that dozens of water fountains across the ...