Consider that a human eye can blink in about 150 milliseconds. That's not as fast as a rattlesnake can strike its prey, but not always fast enough if the target is a kangaroo rat.

Games that involve spinning a rat on a roulette wheel and betting on which hole it will stumble into have no place at Catholic church festivals, animal rights activists say.

A man spent two days swinging a dead rat on a piece of string to entice his pet owl down from a rooftop. Mark Smith used a rat he kept in his freezer to encourage his pet Bengal Benny down from ...

Unable to jump clear of a snake’s ambush strike, the kangaroo rat unveils one more line of defense — a twisting leg kick that knocks the snake to the ground, ...

Watch: Kangaroo Rat Delivers a Ninja-Like Spinning Kick to Drop Rattlesnake Detailed video captures a kangaroo rat's desperation move to avoid a striking rattlesnake and solves a mystery that ...