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The trend for extinct or thought-to-be-lost creatures might be to revive them, but it’s undeniably cooler to actually prove that they still exist. And the rediscovered giant woolly rat is a creature ...

Two recent shows created by veterans of the local sketch and stand-up comedy scenes aim to challenge the negative stereotypes of rattus. Rat City, an immersive musical, played at the Raven Room at ...

Scientists have been curious about how kangaroos evolved to hop with such efficiency. To investigate that, researchers turned to a sort of evolutionary second-cousin of the kangaroo, the musky ...

Another common creature, with a slightly bushier tail, may have been the culprit Scott Olson/Getty The now infamous "rat hole," an imprint of a critter etched into a stretch of concrete in Chicago's ...