I encountered my first ratfish years ago in about 20 feet of water near the docks at Seattle’s Shilshole Bay Marina. I had ...

Mike Ellis, naturalist at Brown County State Park, holds Cecil, a black rat snake, by the tail as he gets acquainted with Ted ...

Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

Researchers feared the population was gone after no sightings in eight years and flooding in 2017 and 2023 that threatened ...

Rats are thin-tailed, medium-sized rodents, and you can find them all over the world. “True rats” belong to the genus Rattus, ...

Ellen Goethel is a marine biologist and the owner of Explore the Ocean World Oceanarium at 367 Ocean Blvd. at Hampton Beach.

A man was spotted in a shopping centre car park wearing a human-sized rat tail. Ksenia Fadljevic, 49, and her daughter, Daniella Fadljevic, 24, were out shopping at Playford Marketplace near Adelaide, ...

"That looks like a rat tail," one viewer said, their comment has been upvoted 6,000 times. "Probably a load bearing rat tail too," another added. "Even worse, if it's still there tomorrow, it's a ...

Giant rat’s tail grass, originally from South Africa, poses a major threat to agriculture and natural ecosystems in Australia. It is a tough, unpalatable species that rapidly outcompetes native ...

One day, a student noticed something strange: One of the rats in the group trained to expect positive experiences had its tail straight up with a crook at the end, resembling the handle of an ...

Fellow neuroscientists identified this as a gentler form of what’s called Straub tail, typically seen in rats given the opioid morphine. This S-shaped curl is also linked to dopamine.