Growing up, in northeast Ohio in the early 1970s, trapping was a huge part of what my father and I did every Fall. And while we didn’t specifically target muskrats, they were our bread and butter. Why ...

Shin-deep in the icy muck, Tim Evans reaches a gloved hand into a watery hole and fishes out his treasure: a sodden mass of dark hair and claws, with four tiny, yellow incisors, a long rubbery tail, ...

The trouble with being in the rat race, comedian Lily Tomlin said, is that even if you win you’re still a rat. Such insults don’t seem to bother the common rat, the rodent version of which is also ...