The first time you see a rat boggling its eyes, it can be a startling sight. Their eyeballs visibly vibrate in their sockets. It’s not surprising that many novice pet rat owners assume something is ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found ...

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We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container. After trial and error, my colleagues and I found that rats could learn to drive forward by grasping a small wire that acted like a gas ...

When a rat you've never met before shows up instead of flowers Credit: Smithsonian's National Zoo/Flickr via CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED OK, here we go: I’m writing an op-ed to defend rats. Not a popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rats have a unique anatomy that means that their jaw muscles run behind their eyeballs. Rats have to grind their incisors to stop ...