The agency is cutting animal testing of chemicals. Some scientists are concerned, but in the meantime the rats (and zebra fish) need new homes. By Hiroko Tabuchi Employees at the Environmental ...

Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency’s research campus in North Carolina are preparing to take on a new responsibility. Bring home lab rats as pets. Or maybe some zebra fish. Both animals ...

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, ...

Just like their human neighbors, the rats of New York City have their own distinctive vocalizations, or “accent”, something akin to an urban dialect shaped by the chaos of noisy subways, busy ...