NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - The Virginia Living Museum welcomed a lucky find to its herpetology collection this St. Patrick's Day: an albino eastern rat snake named Pearl. Pearl was found in a farmer's ...

Rats have been observed showing empathy-driven behavior, such as freeing trapped companions from restrainers. This behavior also extends toward strangers, but with a catch—rats require prior, positive ...

Darcy Watchorn receives funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation, Parks Victoria, the Conservation and Wildlife Research Trust, the Ecological Society of Australia, the Victorian Environmental ...

Rats, like humans, will show kindness to strangers, but only if the rats in distress are of a familiar type, a new study has found. Neurobiologists from the University of Chicago have discovered that ...

A giant albino rat and a foot-long otter sparked panic on board a flight to Taiwan on Wednesday after escaping from a passenger’s hand luggage in mid-air. Astonished travellers spotted the rodent en ...

The clock is ticking. There are two rats. One is free, the other is trapped in a plastic tube. The free one can save his comrade by pushing the tube open. But will he do it? Prior research has found ...

Empathy-driven behavior has been observed in rats who will free trapped companions from restrainers. This behavior also extends toward strangers, but requires prior, positive social interactions with ...