When it comes to unexpected horror stories, humans may never beat nature at its scariest. In Germany, rats reportedly like to ...

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic ...

These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...

A rat-shaped indent on a Chicago sidewalk went viral early last year, with troves of people venturing to the hole bearing ...

Scientists have for the first time located the "mileage clock" inside a brain - by recording the brain activity of running ...

The "Chicago rat hole" became so famous it is now housed in the City Hall-County Building. Scientists studying it found a few ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Generations of rodents had been scrabbling around a Berkeley woman's attic since she was a child. Finally she switched ...

The team behind the study wrote, “The ‘Chicago Rat Hole’ is a remarkable full body impression ostensibly created by a brown ...

Scientists, not content to let a not-so-living legend lie, have determined that the viral Chicago "rat hole" was probably ...

Despite its online fame, no one ever formally analysed the imprint to confirm what left it in the sidewalk—until now.

To complete their findings, the group used "clear anatomical landmarks" to compare the imprint to eight different rodent ...