There was a particular flavour to the Flash games era of the 2000s. Sites like Newgrounds overflowed with weird and wonderful experiments, hacking together new styles and genres. Some found ways to ...

Who is the boss in your house? Some bossy dog breeds—also known as strong-willed, independent or confident dog breeds —are ...

Millions are spent to clean up after the birds and to install spikes and nets to keep them from fouling transit stations and bridges. Are birth control pills next?

The animal kingdom can be rather unforgiving, but even the cutest animals have strange reasons to do some pretty gruesome things, including eating their young.

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations. A rat scurries across West Broadway in New York City. A study looking at rat ...

Chau Doc, Vietnam — Rat or bat? The chef dangled the raw, bloody carcasses before my face as if this were a tantalizing choice. Normally, I’d say neither, but seeing as how it was New Year’s Eve in ...

A new demographic label has swept through China’s social-media feeds in recent months: “rat people.” The term, which describes young adults who retreat into small rooms, avoid socializing and spend ...

Bats beware. The ability to fly won’t save you from hungry, determined rats. In a first, brown rats were filmed hunting bats by catching them midair. The finding, published in the November Global ...