We unpack the shocking revelation that the rat-shaped hole in a Chicago sidewalk was made not by a rat but by a squirrel. Michael Granatosky, an evolutionary biomechanist and one of the researchers ...

Was the great Chicago Rat Hole of 2024 actually made by a rat? Researchers who looked at the imprint in the sidewalk slab say "probably not!" ...

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These burrowing animals have a biological mechanism that does the opposite of what it does in humans: it repairs DNA instead ...

Other researchers have theorized that a squirrel created the imprint, the study acknowledged. Cement is typically wet during ...

The so-called “Chicago Rat Hole,” which has existed for 20-30 years before becoming an internet sensation, inspired TikToks, fan art, and countless selfies. Instead, they determined it came from a ...

You’ve probably heard about antimicrobial resistance (AMR) before, but how much do you know about microbes, antibiotics, and ...

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

Two brain regions, M2 and OFC, work together to balance steady habits with flexible learning when choices become uncertain.

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst. The ...

Rats that lived together stayed mentally sharp with age. Social housing preserved memory and brain aging efficiency compared ...