To be a pest is to be underestimated. Sure, pests are annoying, but being a pest also requires a surprising amount of coordination and communication. That’s what researchers recently discovered about ...

Mice and rats vocalize. To us, many of the sounds they make are ultrasonic—at too high a frequency to hear. But if we slow the calls down, they sound like squeaks. And not all squeaks are the same.

When two nearly blind naked mole rats encounter each other in a dark subterranean tunnel, it could be a friendly meeting or a moment of potential bloodshed between strangers. The creatures chirp to ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Rats may carry out certain activities just for the fun of it, says new research on the animals' behavior. In a study published in the journal Science researchers found that rats were capable of not ...

Just as Aquaman can talk to fish, so too can researchers at the University of Washington chat with rats. Or, at least, they can better understand what rats are squeaking about thanks to a deep ...