A naked mole-rat queen – the sole breeder in a colony. (Felix Petermann, Max Delbrück Center) Naked mole-rats are wonderfully strange. First off, they're awesomely cute or terrifyingly ugly, depending ...

The strange-looking creatures are one of two known mammals that use a social structure like that of bees and ants. A ruling ...

Rats and mice are rarely welcome guests, but keeping them out of your home often requires more than simply reacting once you spot signs of activity. Alongside practical measures such as sealing entry ...

Naked mole rats are weird. They spend their lives almost entirely underground, are largely insensitive to some kinds of pain, ...

With roughly three million rats living in New York City, scientists set out to understand the daily lives—and speech patterns ...

Rats have a somewhat unfortunate tendency to enjoy living where people live. That's how a biologist tried to explain people's hatred for the rodents in a television news feature about rats gnawing ...

We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

The war on rats will never be fully won, Lauren Bell, the Junior Minister of Health, admitted during questions in the Senate ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found ...