As a first time taxidermist, I am going to learn how to give this sad looking rat human qualities in Risk’s daylong anthropomorphic rat workshop. My kids think I am sick, but I am quite enchanted.

WATCH: Rat takes disturbingly human-like shower, is caught on camera What a time to be alive By Sadaf Ahsan Published Jan 29, 2018 2 minute read ...

The rising urban rat population is on the radar for Chelsea Himsworth. She's the lead researcher of the Vancouver Rat Project and is conducting the first and only research into urban rats in Canada.

Pleasant tactile stimulation drives social bonding in many animal species, especially mammals. Tactile stimulation forms the basis of the infant-caregiver relationship and often leads to affinity-like ...

Rat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.