new york city Meet McMuffin Rat David Pescovitz

Funny Squirrel wrecks couple's home while away on holiday and insurance won't pay Xeni Jardin

Science Rats' nests are rich with unrecorded history and urgent scientific data David Pescovitz

britain British celebrity Freddie Starr "definitely dead" Rob Beschizza

animals Watch firefighters rescue rat stuck in manhole cover David Pescovitz

Science Mice can get into amazingly tight spaces Seamus Bellamy

Science How to: tickle a rat Cory Doctorow

makers How to make a simple pipe mousetrap Mark Frauenfelder

wonderful creatures Mad hamster performs backflips Rob Beschizza

new york city NYC rats walking upright, holding rodent Burning Man David Pescovitz

animals How rats can swim up your toilet to terrorize you David Pescovitz

beating the system Gentleman arrested for using mice and hamsters to get free hotel rooms Mark Frauenfelder

books The Pursuit of Capyness is a capybaras-only coloring book Rob Beschizza

capybaras Capybaras relaxing in a hot tub Rob Beschizza

buckets of rats New York has a new Rube Goldberg-ian dunk-a-rat-in-alcohol trap Jason Weisberger

In search of How coconut crabs may have absconded with Amelia Earhart's skeleton Clive Thompson

Science Scientists control mouse neurons so the rodents "see" things that aren't there David Pescovitz

parasites Hawaii reports three more cases of parasitic worms that burrow into human brains Mark Frauenfelder

scams Thanks to the 2008 foreclosure crisis, a Kuwaiti ponzi schemer was able to single-handedly blight cities across America Cory Doctorow

mental health Ketamine rebuilds connections between neurons lost during stress Mark Frauenfelder