Snakes in the US With Surprisingly Sweet Temperaments

Snakes may not be known for wagging tails or greeting their owners at the door, but some species are thought to be ...

Can a new trick get rid of the giant snails along the River Walk?

The San Antonio River Authority is installing plastic barriers to try to stop invasive apple snails from laying their piles ...

Praise Kier! The Simpsons' A+ Severance Episode Had Way More Easter Eggs Than I Expected

First, Severance star Zach Cherry is one of the guest stars, which is less of an easter egg, and more of an Easter basket ...

Who is the anonymous Minnesota tagger Ratboy?

His signature stickers and written tags have popped up in the Twin Cities and beyond and created a cult following online. A ...
New York Post

Cartoon PSA advises to flush rats if climbing up and invading toilets — and social media goes wild

This PSA had social media clogged with one-liners. A whacky government cartoon warned Seattle residents how to deal with rats that might climb up from flooded sewers into toilets – but social media ...
Futurism

Rats Successfully Trained to Shoot Demons in “Doom”

In 2020, Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist Viktor Tóth came up with a fascinating experiment. With the use of a bootstrap experimental setup consisting of a large polystyrene ball, a ...
The New York Times

Toilet Rats: Rare, but There

Heavy rains have prompted public health officials in Washington to warn residents about toilet rats, a rare plumbing nightmare that drives frantic calls to pest control experts. By Amanda Holpuch ...
NBC News

Toilet rats? Washington health officials warn of possible rodents in sewer systems after floods

Washington health officials warned residents that heavy rain and floodwater could sweep rats into the sewer systems and up into their ... well ... toilets! The ...
KUOW

Wet rat winter? How to handle toilet rats after Washington's heavy rain

Here's what to do if you find a rat coming through your toilet following heavy Western Washington rain and floods. It was midnight when Simone Gabara got up to use the restroom in her White Center ...
Seattle Times

King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding

What do you call the bad version of a cherry on top, or icing on the cake? For those in King County reeling from back-to-back atmospheric rivers and the ensuing flooding chaos, it might just be toilet ...
The Conversation

I study rat nests − here’s why rodents make great archivists

Alexandria Mitchem Hansen receives funding from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the American Philosophical Society, the Explorer's Club, the Society for Historical Archaeology, the ...
Dark Reading

'Cellik' Android RAT Leverages Google Play Store

A remote access Trojan (RAT)-as-a-service uses the Google Play Store to build poisoned versions of Android apps. That RAT's name is "Cellik," and it was covered this week in research published by ...