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The infamous Chicago “rat hole,” a sidewalk imprint that became a quirky local landmark and viral sensation, has been revealed not to have been made by a rat at all, scientists announced. The imprint, ...

Turns out Chicago's famous "rat hole" was squirrelly all along. A new study has determined that the famous full-body imprint in a concrete sidewalk slab on West Roscoe Street — dubbed “Splatatouille” ...

In January 2024, Chicagoans paid their respects to a peculiar attraction: a rodent-shaped hole stamped into a slab of sidewalk on the city’s North Side. Nicknamed the Chicago Rat Hole or ...

Chicago’s viral ‘Rat Hole’ is less rat splat, more squirrel squish. Researchers determined it was probably a squirrel that left a rodent-shaped impression in the concrete of the Windy City. Their new ...

CARDIFF City stadium have hit back after a RAT halted play during the second half of Wales’ World Cup qualifier against Belgium. Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois made an unsuccessful attempt to ...

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark. To put the rodent-shaped impression into context, a team of ...

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink stated the financial industry is at “the beginning of the tokenization of all assets” during an Oct. 14 interview on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. The comment came as the ...

This alteration confers naked mole-rat cGAS with a greater capacity to stabilize the genome, counteract cellular senescence and organ aging, and promote extended life span and health span." Scientists ...

Caught in a traffic jam on his way to his next job during a busy Wednesday, a pest control expert working in the UK's most rat-infested area shares his insights into the rodent-dominated landscape.

An Air India flight going from Punjab's Amritsar to England's Birmingham encountered a serious mid-air scare on Saturday as the aircraft – a Boeing 787 – saw unexpected deployment of its Ram Air ...