Slithers and squeaks frighten most people, however those noises are part of critter enthusiast Tom Yeager’s everyday life. Yeager, 74, started raising and breeding ball pythons and rodents about six ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville homeowner said his neighbor’s overgrown yard is becoming a breeding ground for snakes and rats. Now he claims they’re creeping onto his property. Sam Riddick has ...

Doctors and scientists reported a case of Seoul virus infection in a woman. The Seoul virus belongs to the hantavirus family ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Controlling rat populations has been a problem for ...

Naked mole-rats live in colonies of two breeders and around 300 non-breeding workers. Although the breeding pair carries the metabolic cost of reproduction and, in the queen's case, lactation, they ...

African giant pouched rats have an exceptional sense of smell - they are used to detect land mines and tuberculosis - but scientists know very little about their biology or social structure, and ...