Rats are destroying cars, clambering onto boats and washing up dead on beaches in northern Australia after a plague of the rodents hit the region. The vermin have swarmed through the towns of ...

Council flat tenants say they have been invaded by a plague of rats causing terror by climbing walls, breaking into cars and even chewing through Christmas gifts ...

The bite of rat-borne fleas infected with the bubonic plague has been blamed for disease transmission during the medieval pandemic Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black ...

Parts of the state have been battling a rat and mouse plague for months now. A surge in the native rodent population has forced the rats to move coastwards in their search for more food ...

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A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...

While plague is no longer an issue, the city still deals with rat-borne illnesses, such as leptospirosis. Sanitation workers picking up garbage on city streets come into contact with rat urine on ...

Nosferatu’s arrival in the German town of Wismar also signals the coming of the plague. As thousands of rats spill out of his ...

A Plague Tale: Requiem looks to push next-gen technology on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X by having more rats than ever onscreen at one time in the upcoming action-adventure game. Developer ...

It also has AI-driven upscaling and advanced ray tracing, so those thousands of creepy rats in the Plague Tale game should look even more horrifying.

Residents of the Georgian House block, in Great Northern Road, said the problem had got to a stage where foxes and rats were ripping up the bin bags and adding to the mess outside. City council chiefs ...