In a statement, the chain apologised and said most of its sites would be shut between March 31 and April 4 "to prevent ...

Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a ...

APOPO is a global non-profit organization that trains rats to save lives. The group uses African giant pouched rats to sniff ...

African giant pouched rats like Carolina prevented nearly 400,000 new cases of a deadly disease. It's possible because of ...

One of Japan's biggest restaurant chains is closing its outlets for deep cleaning, after two incidents of customers finding ...

The object was found before the soup was consumed. The rat is believed to have been in a bowl that the ingredients for the soup were prepared in. The store states that an employee "neglected to ...

A recent University of Hawaii study predicts that rat lungworm disease, which is carried by snails and slugs, will spread to higher elevations as the climate warms. -- LORRIN PANG photo ...

The giant rat shown here isn't the biggest of the extinct ... It is also known as the house, roof or ship rat and is found throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

A Japanese restaurant chain has apologised after a rat was found in a bowl of miso soup. Sukiya, known for its bowls of beef and rice, said the rodent was discovered by a customer at its branch in ...

The biggest rat colonies in the city are found in rundown structures on or near the waterfront, especially in tenements, live-poultry markets, wholesale produce markets, slaughterhouses ...

He did not have a tally of the total number of dead animals found inside, but an animal rescue group collected more than 100 deceased rats. The live rats, and more than 100 dead ones, were removed ...

The invasive species, nutria, is a large, semiaquatic rodent increasingly found in marshes in the United States. As a part of its National Invasive Species Awareness Week, which ended on Friday ...