A pet snake in Chicago stunned its owner by befriending a live rat placed in its terrarium at feeding time. Remarkable ...

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) has been promoted on Telegram as combining spyware, stealer, and remote access capabilities, Kaspersky reports. Named CrystalX RAT, it emerged in January, when it was ...

Neuty, the pet nutria that became a local sensation in 2023, has been diagnosed with cancer, according to his keeper, Denny Lacoste. A week ago, Denny and his wife, Myra, noticed an egg-sized lump ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a.k.a. the rat lungworm, is now ...

If you were born under the year of the Rat, buckle up! Ringing in the Lunar New Year with the Fire Horse — during the new moon solar eclipse in Aquarius on Feb. 17 — 2026 is already blazing forward at ...

Rats are spreading in the Treasure Valley and a new bill could get the State of Idaho involved to help. On Tuesday, Sen. Tammy Nichols, R-Middleton, and Rep. Steve Berch, D-Boise, introduced a bill in ...

In January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a new evolution in the ongoing ClickFix campaign. This updated tactic deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then attempts to lure users into ...

In the 10 days since snow and ice hit the D.C. region, trash and pet poop have piled up. Officials in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. say crews are working as fast as possible to clear out streets, alleys ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerade as spellcheckers but contain functionality to deliver a remote access ...

ROCKY POINT, Long Island (WABC) -- An entire home on Long Island has been completely overrun by hundreds of rats that were kept as pets by a 48-year-old homeowner who is now under arrest, leaving ...

Rats have one of the most powerful senses of smell in the animal kingdom, far surpassing that of humans. Their noses contain hundreds of millions of olfactory receptors (many times more than ours) ...