One African giant pouched rat in Cambodia is making communities safer by sniffing out dangerous explosives—and he just set a record for his species. According to Smithsonian, the 5-year-old rat ...

Several dozen rats live together in colonies led by one dominant rat—the queen. As in some insect species, the queen is the only naked mole rat female to breed and bear young. Worker animals dig ...

Once considered common, the San Bernardino kangaroo rat had lost significant habitat by the 1930s. With continued habitat fragmentation and destruction, today nearly 95 percent of the kangaroo rat's ...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas— Responding to a Center for Biological Diversity lawsuit, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the Texas kangaroo rat as an endangered species. The agency ...

The Big Apple took the No. 2 spot on Orkin’s list of most rat-infested cities in the U.S. Tracey Harrington McCoy is a celebrity news writer at PEOPLE Digital. She has been working at PEOPLE ...