A plague of rats is creating havoc in Karumba, a small coastal town in Queensland, Australia, where hordes of rodents are chewing on electrical wires and otherwise eating everything they can find ...

Rat-pocalypse! Skincrawling reason why 'millions and millions' of starving 'cannibal rats' are descending on this picturesque Aussie town in Far North Queensland Karumba, Queensland, has a rat plague ...

Rats may not have caused the Black Death, study suggests The Bubonic Plague killed millions in Europe between 1347 and 1353 Vishwam Sankaran Thursday 19 January 2023 11:58 GMT 0 Comments ...

The first plague pandemic began in the early sixth century and lasted until the later eighth century. The second pandemic (which included the Black Death) began in the 1330s and lasted five centuries.

Over half of the black rats tested in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney between 2021 and 2024 were found to have a gene mutation that increases their resistance to certain poisons (stock) ...

There are too many rats in Ottawa. Politically speaking, that may be self-evident. But in this case, it's the four-legged, beady-eyed, bewhiskered variety that is causing skin to crawl in Canada's ...